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United States  of America President Barack Obama President Barack Obama's private airplane lands in downtown Cleveland at Burke Lakefront Airport before a cheering crowd of 12, 000 Obama supporters Thursday night, Oct. 25. The president spoke for nearly a half and hour and told the audience that winning Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and  Ohio is critical to the election The Cone sisters (Ilama, Randi and Susie) with their friend Jenny (2nd from left). The women, all residents of greater Cleveland, were among 12,000 Obama supporters that came out to hear a campaign speech by the president Thursday night at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Oh. Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. Secretary of State, who served under former president George W. Bush, and the former Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush who, on Oct 25, announced his endorsement of President Barack Obama. A Black Republican and a scholar, Powell also endorsed Obama in 2008.  By Johnette Jernigan

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- After coming off of a win where polls showed that he trampled Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romey during the third and final presidential debate, which was Monday night on foreign affairs at Lynn University in New York, President Barack Obama will speak to grassroots supporters Thursday night at Burke Lakefront Airport in downtown Cleveland, OH.  "The president was on his A game during the debate Monday night and Mitt Romney was all over the place with mumble jumble and cowboy diplomacy," said state Rep. John E. Barnes Jr (D-12), a Cleveland Democrat who said that he will be among a host of Democrats in Ohio, including Cleveland area Black elected officials, that will be out this evening to hear the first Black president of the United States of America speak to the American people.  The free tickets t

By Karl Kimbrough, Sports Writer, Cleveland Urban News.Com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Jimmy Haslam III is the new owner of the Cleveland Browns, which became official Oct. 16. And he  brings with him,  a new flavor for the major metropolitan city of Cleveland where professional sports is a draw. A billionaire who was unanimously voted in as the majority owner of the football franchise last week in  Chicago IL., Haslam also  brings a new era of professional football to Cleveland.  He comes experienced in the corporate world, and in football. He made his fortune as president and CEO of Pilot Flying, a nationwide truck stop travel  center based in Knoxville, TN. The former eight percent owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Haslam has taken over the Cleveland  Browns in rapid fashion. His hands on approach gives some fans and players alike the feeling that there is a new sheriff in town and that the organization will be run much differently than with previ

The billboard 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 that was taken down on Oct. 22 by the advertising company  Clear  Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.  after outcries by Black elected officials and a protest by community activists. Activists and Cleveland area councilpersons and state legislators had called  the billboard and 29 others around Cleveland like it racist, unconstitutional, voter suppression and voter intimidation of Ohio communities that have a large number of poor and minority voters. A press conference by Black elected officials and a picket by community activist groups such as The Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime, Peace in the Hood, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor and Organize Ohio  over the aforementioned Clear Channel billboard was held on Oct. 11 and made national news, including CNN and MSNBC. (

Shi'Dea N. Lane, a passenger on a Cleveland RTA bus that RTA Bus Driver Artis Hughes, who has since been suspended, sucker punched to the floor and tossed off the bus on Sept. 18 after an argument ensued on the bus. While Lane has been charged by RTA, Hughes was not. However, Beachwood, Oh Prosecutor Thomas Greve and City Law Director Margaret Anne Cannon have said that the city will charge both with misdemeanors. Former RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched a young Black female passenger and tossed her off of an RTA bus By Kathy Wray Coleman ad Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio – A greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus driver has been suspended after a video, now on YouTube.com and generating more than 3 million review clicks, goes viral and catches him sucker punching a 25 -year- old female passenger in the face  that allegedly

United States President Barack Obama (left), the Democratic Nominee for President, and Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- President Obama won on two ends this week.  The president out did Mitt Romney during Tuesday night's debate, polls and people said. And earlier that day he out did Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and the Republicans. Obama gained bragging rights in Ohio for a win on Tuesday on his early voting lawsuit as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a decision affirmed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday that upheld Federal District Judge Peter Economus' ruling to strike down an unconstitutional state law that precluded early voting the weekend before the November 6 election. Opposition to that voter suppression federal lawsuit had become Husted's baby, and ultimately his

Former United States Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, a Republican and the first Black female to hold the post   Wisconsin U.S. Representative and Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romey, a former governor of Massachusetts By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, the first Black female to hold the post, visited the Cleveland area on Wednesday to join Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Congressman Paul Ryan for a rally in support of Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Oh.  Rice, 57, a Republican who served as secretary of state under the George W. Bush administration and now teaches political science at California's Standford University, spoke to a crowd of some 1300 people and said that Romn