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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 ) NEW ORLEANS, LA-The University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas will square off Mon. night at 9:23 pm for the men's NCAA basketball c hampionship game after Louisville fell to Kentucky on Sat. 69 to 61 and Ohio State University lost to Kansas 64 to 62. The Kansas Jayhawks have won three NCAA championships and the Kentucky Wildcats have won seven. Ohio State's Buckeyes last win was in the 1960s and the Louisville Cardinals last won in 1986 with a team led by Darryl Griffith. Kentucky and Louisville have played each other 43 times but never in a Final Four contest like Sat. Reach Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone number: 216-932-3114.

Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson 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 ) INDEPENDENCE, Ohio-Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson will guest co- host "The Councilman Zack Reed Show" tonight, April 1, from 8-10 pm on WTAM AM Radio 1100 and will discuss the Trayvon Martin case. Reed, who leads Cleveland's Ward 2, will also host the show on April 1. Call in numbers for WTAM are 216-578-1100 and 216-578-1111. Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Reach Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone number: 216-932-3114.

Trayvon Martin 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 ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Over 200 people, including prominent area Civil Rights attorneys, elected officials, Cleveland NAACP officials and leaders of grassroots groups such as the Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime, Occupy Cleveland, Revolution Books, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Peace in the Hood, Occupy the Hood Cleveland, the Committee to Bring Home Jamela and Jamyla, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, the Cleveland African American Museum, Organize Ohio, the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, People for the Imperial Act, the Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, and the Underground Railroad participated in a rally on Fri., March 30 at Public Square in Cleveland to demand the repeal of Florida's &qu

Trayvon Martin 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 ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-A coalition of over 50 greater Cleveland grassroots, Civil Rights, college, faith-based community organizations and Cleveland area elected officials dubbed "The Greater Cleveland Coalition Of 50 Plus Organizations For Justice For Trayvon Martin," will gather on Fri., March 30, 2012 with Cleveland NAACP officials from 4-6m pm at the Southwest Quadrant at Public Square in downtown Cleveland for a mass rally in support of Trayvon Martin. (Editor's note: Plans for a march to the Justice Center have changed and the march will be around Public Square). Supporters of the rally are encouraged to wear hoodies and bring skittles candies. To participate as group at the rally or for further information call Cleveland NAACP Vice President Dr. Eugene Jordon at 216-451-850

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Occupy Cleveland anti-foreclosure protesters, with Peter Schanz on the far right. Schantz says that Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's appointed city prosecutor and law director added additional criminal charges for a foreclosure protest two and a half weeks ago at a Cuyahoga County sheriff's sale because the five arrested members of Occupy Cleveland would not agree to plead guilty to a minor misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Last year 11 Occupy Cleveland members were arrested on Public Square in Cleveland. The cases are pending in Cleveland Municipal Court. Larry Bresler , a west side Cleveland Community Activist who leads Organize Ohio and The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Cleveland Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins Cleveland Ward 16 Councilman Jay Westbrook Cleveland Jobs With Justice Executive Director Debbie Kline By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Onlin

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court 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 ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Obama's sweeping healthcare law that was adopted by Congress in 2010 before a divided America and requires among other mandates that most Americans hold heath insurance by 2014 or face a penalty is now before the conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court with tense oral arguments from both sides ending on Wed. At issue is the power of Congress to mandate that all Americans have healthcare insurance during a debilitating economy and whether the mandate is so overreaching that it gives rise to an unconstitutional requirement. Challenging the law are 26 states, including Ohio, and a small-business trade group. They court will decide which provisions of the controversial law to throw out and which to keep, if any.

Trayvon Martin (lt) and child murderer George Zimmerman, who has not been charged for killing the unarmed Black teen (Editor's note: Below this article is the article on the alleged harassment and defamation by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason and his employee Lily Miller against Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman in retaliation for her writings and activism, and for her complaint to Mason about Miller calling Blacks nigger) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-About 150 people gathered for a "Trayvon Martin Skittles Rally" on Sat., March 24 at Black on Black Crime Headquarters in East Cleveland, Oh. led by Ernie Smith and Patricia Rowell of the Oppressed People's Nation in cooperation with a host of other Cleveland area activist groups such as the Imperial Women Coalition , the Cl