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Karl Kimbrough, the new sports writer for Cleveland Urban News.Com, who will cover the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Cavaliers, among other sports venues.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-(Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com introduces Karl Kimbrou gh as its  new sports writer. Previously a writer with Our Voice, a Lorain, Oh. community newspaper, Kimbrough is an asset to  the  news team at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read Black and urban online newspaper). By Karl Kimbrough, Sports Writer, Cleveland Urban News.Com The first 4:57 seconds of the Browns game against the New York Giants on Sunday seemed too surreal to be true with the Browns having a commanding 12-0 lead over the 2011 Super Bowl Champion Giants.  Unfortunately for the Cleveland Browns and their fans it was too real to be true. In their four previous games, the Browns' scored a total of six points in the first quarter. Could the Browns be turning their fortunes around?  Before the end of the first h

The bill board at 35th St and Community College Ave. near Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland on its predominantly Black east side of town in the impoverished Central Neighborhood where Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson lives. Community activists and elected officials call  the billboards racist, unconstitutional, voter suppression and voter intimidation of Ohio communities that have a large number of poor and minority voters. A picket over the Clear Channel billboard at issue is set for Thursday, Oct. 5 at 11 am. Community activists want the billboard and others like it  throughout the city and in other Ohio cities like Columbus and Cincinnati taken down immediately. (Photo by Will Monroe Photography, Email: monroe@clevelandurbannews.com). By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community activists, elected officials and others will picket on Thursday, Oct. 1

Sharon Reed By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's most read online Black and urban newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Former WOIO 19 Action News Anchor Sharon Reed, whose  contract  with the Cleveland television news station was non-renewed last year, has joined KNOV Channel 4 in St Louis, Mo. as a news anchor.   Reed will co-anchor the 4 and 10 pm news with Larry Connors and anchor along side of Jasmine Huda at 5 pm, station officials said. Like 19 Action News, KNOV Channel 4 is also a CBS affiliate. This summer rumors circulated the Internet linking Reed's  pregnancy, the non-renewal of her contract with 19 Action News,  and her subsequent new born baby to NBA basketball star and Miami Heat star player LeBron James, coupled with claims that she was living in Miami,  Fl.   Her lawyer quickly denied the rumors and threatened to sue. James, 27 and a nativ

United States President Barack Obama (left), the Democratic Nominee for President, and Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson, whose ward club sponsored a watch party for the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Johnson is one of nine Black council persons out of 19 that represent the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson , the head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University . Robinson spoke at a get out the vote rally with U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), other Black Cleveland area elected officials, Black clergy, community activists and local and national union leaders of the Regional Transit Authority's Amalgamated Transit Union at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Oh. on Oct 2, the first day of early voting in Ohio, a pivotal state By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleve

Kathy Wray Coleman Friday Public Friends Friends except Acquaintances Only Me Custom Close Friends Cleveland Area See all lists... Family Cleveland Urban News.Com Kentucky State University Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Ky. Spalding University University of Louisville University of Akron Acquaintances Go Back Community activists, elected officials to picket over racist bill board in Cleveland's poor, Black communities that threatens voters with prison, $10,000 fine if they vote this year, protest is Thursday, Oct 11, 5 pm, 35th St and Community College Blvd. Read this story at  www.clevelandurbannews.com  .Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, Tel: 216-659-0473. (Editor's note: Below is a Facebook discussion on the Clear Channel Radio and Media (WTAM) billboard that community activists, Black elected officials say targets poor and minority cities in an effort to intimidate voters and to suppress the Black vote) 1 Like  ·   ·  Share