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Tavis Smiley (right) and Dr. Cornell West Dr. Cornell West Tavis Smiley By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Famed television and radio personality and community activist Tavis Smiley, and Dr. Cornell West, one of America's most noted scholars and authors on Black issues, will hold a poverty tour suggestion today, Sept. 12, 2012  from 5 to 7 pm at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus in Highland Hills, Oh.,  a suburb of Cleveland. Smiley and West are targeting key battleground states for the November 6 presidential election to emphasize the extent that the poor community has been disenfranchised by Republican Part agendas designed to silence the Democratic vote.  In addition to Ohio, the  states for the tour are Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. The event is free and

The late U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (far left), a Cleveland Democrat, then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a former first lady who is now U.S. secretary of state, and former Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland at a campaign event in Ohio during Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America in 2008 By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (See the Tubbs Jones interview that was taken shortly before her death on Aug. 20, 2008 below this brief story. Thanks for taking the time to read what we write here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black and urban newspaper). The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com remember the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones on her birthday of September 10.

Democratic United States President Barack Obama Former Democratic United States President Bill Clinton United States First Lady Michelle Obama Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald (D-OH) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARLOTTE, North Carolina- President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton teamed up last week at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC and showed how performances at national party conventions can dictate outcomes on election day. Since the convention Obama has broken a previous tie that he had coming in to it and now leads 49% to GOP opponent Mitt Romey's 45%, with 3% undecided and another  3% saying they will vote for other candidates, according to a presidential tracking poll on Sunday by the

Nine-Time Grammy Award Winning Singer John Legend, also an actor and accomplished song writer from Springfield, Oh.  United States President Barack Obama By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, and Cleveland Urban News.Com Marketing Director and Copy Editor Marc Churchill  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Above, Legend plays and sings some of his music at a campaign event in Ohio in support of United States President Barack Obama CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Urban News.Com nabbed an interview with actor, songwriter and nine-time Grammy award winning pop and R and B singer John Legend, a native of Springfield, Oh. who was campaigning in his home state for the upcoming November 6 presidential election for President Barack Obama, America's first Black president. (Editor's note: Read the one-on-one interview below this brief synopsis) L

Michael Clarke Duncan, rt, and Tom Hanks By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) LOS ANGELES, California-Michael Clarke Duncan, the Black actor who was nominated for an  Oscar  for his role as a gentle- giant prisoner opposite Oscar winner Tom Hanks in the 1999 America motion picture drama 'The Green Mile,' is dead at 54.  The former body guard  for Jamie Fox, Will Smith and other mega stars who  stood  6-foot-4 died at Cedars- Sinai  Medical Center in Los  Angeles on  Labor Day on Sept. 3  of natural causes following a heart attack in July.  Duncan grew up in  Chicago ,  IL . and  was raised by a single mother. He attended Alcorn University and had smaller roles in film before the hit "The Green Mile." The actor's casket is set for public viewing from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday in Los Ang

United States First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention at its opening night Tuesday in Charlotte, NC. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARLOTTE, North Carolina- With Obama and  Mitt Romney in a dead heat, First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at opening night Tuesday at  the Democratic National Convention and wooed America with her charm, wit, warmth, and oratory brilliance. Her speech out -shined the mediocre one given last week at the Republican Convention by Ann Romney, who spent much of her speech making excuses for Mitt  Romney's billionaire status. Dressed flawlessly in a sleeveless pink style designer dress, the first lady, whose approval ratings harbor at 70 percent, was articulate, given her background as an ivy league Princeton University law school gradua