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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (Photograph by The Cleveland Plain Dealer at Cleveland.com www.cleveland.com ) Donna Walker -Brown, below center, with community activist and Oppressed People's Nation Leader Ernest Smith , as Smith talks to a reporter at an educational rally. A Cleveland schools parent who has announced that she will run for mayor in 2013, Walker- Brown has led community protests against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's recent educational plan and against the state law that gives the mayor control of the Cleveland Municipal School District. U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) Cleveland Teachers Union President David Quoke The late Federal District Court Judge George White The late Federal District Court Judge Frank Battisti Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Educational activist and former Cleveland School Board Member Gerald C. Henley The Rev. Al Sharpton Kelley Williams-Bolar Ohio Gov.

Connie Schultz By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) AKRON, Ohio-Pulitzer prize winning journalist Connie Schultz, a journalist in her own right who won the prestigious honor as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, and the wife of Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, is the keynote speaker for The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area Women in Journalism Luncheon that will be held on Sat., March 17 at 11:00 am at the Fairlawn Country Club, 200 North Wheaton Rd, in Akron, Oh. Also recognized at the event will be women in journalism that have made a contribution to the community, including Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black journalist of 18 years and a former freelance journalist for the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper who now publishes and edits Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.cle

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, the prior chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party whom a federal jury convicted of 33 of 34 counts of crimes in office last week, including racketeering . By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) AKRON-Ohio-Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora reached a court settlement yesterday on what he owes the federal government after his conviction last week on 33 of 34 counts of crimes in office including theft, racketeering and taking bribes on county contracts for things such as home improvements, Las Vegas junkets and expensive prostitutes. The former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party who joins a host of other former elected officials and county party affiliates in losing to the federal government, including two former judg

Joaquin Hicks Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Members of Black on Black Crime, The Oppressed People's Nation, The Imperial Women, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, The Carl Stokes Brigade, The Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, Revolution Books, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The People's Forum and a host of other community activists will hold a homecoming celebration on Wed., March 14, at 7 pm at Black on Black Crime Headquarters , 14660 Euclid Ave in East Cleveland, for Joaquin Hicks and his family. (Black on Black Crime Headquarters is at Euclid Ave. and Lee Rd in McCall's Hotel meeting room) The event is closed to the media and the contact is Art McKoy at 216-253-4070. "We thank the comm