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Cleveland NAACP to hold election for branch officers on Sunday, Clint Bradley, Jocelyn Travis, Rev. Hilton Smith vie for president, national NAACP representative to help supervise it, other contested race for third vice president pits Judge Sara Harper against Dr. Eugene Jordan, Danielle Sydnor, 25 seek positions on executive committee

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Clint Bradley, candidate for president of the Cleveland Branch NAACP Jocelyn Travis, candidate for president of the Cleveland Branch NAACP The Rev. Hilton Smith, candidate for president of the Cleveland Branch NAACP Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, a part time Cleveland attorney and general counsel for The Call and Post Newspaper who officially resigned as president of the local branch of the nation's most renowned Civil Rights organization in April By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will hold its every-two-years election of branch officers on Sunday, Nov. 11 from 1 pm to 5 pm at the school behind The Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Cleveland, 2940 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. To vote members must have their dues paid 30 days
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Obama wins Ohio and relection, Cleveland area Black elected officials that helped him win like Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, State Sen Nina Turner, State Reps Bill Patmon, John Barnes Jr., Cleveland Councilpersons Jeff Johnson, Mamie Mitchell, Cuyahoga County Councilman Julian Rogers, comment on his win, Rep. Fudge says Obama will deliver for Ohio as Ohio delivered for Obama, Black community wins once again as grassroots campaign catapults Obama to victory, Read this story on Obama's historic political rise as the first Black president of the United States of America and how Ohioans, Black entertainers and elected officials, and Cleveland's Black community championed his successful campaign for reelection

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President Barack Obama, the first Black President of The United States of America, gives his victory speech before a cheering crowd of thousands at his campaign headquarters in Chicago, Il. after winning a second term as president from American voters Tuesday night.  The first family takes to the stage Tuesday night in Chicago, IL after Barack Obama wins a second term as President of the United States of America Obama supporters gathered Tuesday night to watch the election results trickle in at a watch party at the ward club office of Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson on the predominantly Black east side of the major metropolitan city of Cleveland. From left Johnson, James Box,  Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), George Edwards,  Vicki Acquah, Jahlil  Muhammad,  and Cleveland Attorney Michael Nelson Sr. (Photo by Cleveland Urban News.Com intern Bernard Rowans). By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.C
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Victory parties election night Nov 6 in Ohio, President Obama, Sen. Sherrod Brown party is at Hilton Hotel in Columbus, Obama volunteers for Cleveland area is at the Double Tree Lakeside in Cleveland, parties also at Josephine's, Councilman Jeff Johnson' s ward club office in Cleveland

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Watch parties relative to the Nov 6, 2012  election are as follows: (Reach the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Headquarters at 216-621-9750, 1466 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114). Victory Party for President Obama, Senator Sherrrod Brown other Democratic Party candidates in Ohio: Columbus Hilton in  downtown Columbus, 401 N. High St, Columbus, OH, 43215, Tel: 614-384-8600 Party for Obama for America Campaign volunteers (according to Cuyahoga County Democratic Party officials) Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Cleveland, 1111 Lakeside Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44114, Tel: 216-241-5100 Grassroots Victory Party for President Obama: Josephine's Lounge, 7902 Central Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44104, Tel: 216-361-3697, Dionne Thomas Carmichael, proprietor Cleveland Ward
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Rev Dr. Ralph David Abernathy III, a son of the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. that marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and led The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, visits Cleveland to push early voting, to support Obama, speaks at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland with singer John Legend performing, says some Blacks get "Romnesia" and forget about the struggle for Civil Rights, says Obama is a change agent for America, Black community, famous Blacks have toured Cleveland in support of Obama as Ohio remains pivotal

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The Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy III, an evangelist, Civil Rights leader, motivational speaker and a son of the late Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. His father, Abernathy Sr.,  was the partner of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights movement who assumed the leadership role of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of King in 1968. The younger Abernathy visited Cleveland, Oh. on Sunday to stomp for the reelection of President Obama The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. (left) and The Rev.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference during the height of the Civil Rights Movement JACK E. CANTRELL, MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR: COURTESY MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COLLECTION / UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS  LIBRARIES By Marc R. Churchill and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Online Blog, Ohio’s Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Rev. Dr
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Obama Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett joins former Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in Cleveland, Ohio to push early voting, Jarrett calls Romney a liar, Jackson says Obama is an urban-centered education president, Ohio Congresswoman Fudge to lead rally today at 2 pm for early voting from 1pm-5pm today ay Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland, 2929 Euclid Ave, rally is with members of Congressional Black Caucus, Ohio State Rep Barnes says support of Obama is great, retired Ohio State Rep. Whalen calls Romney a 'psychopathic liar'

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Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to United States of America President Barack Obama  and  assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs who visited Cleveland on Thursday, Nov. 1 and told reporters that Ohio is crucial to the election and that Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney is a liar whose lies to the American people show his desperation during the final hours of the campaign for president  Former Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland, who is blazing the campaign trail in Ohio in support of President Barack Obama. Frances Strickland is the wife of former Ohio Democratic Governor Ted Strickland, who lost reelection to Republican John Kasich in 2010 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who says that President Barack Obama is an education president who supports predominantly Black major metropolitan cities like the City of Cleveland Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) who will lead members of the Congressional Black Cau
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ENDOREMENTS: Cleveland Urban News.Com, Imperial Women endorse President Barack Obama, Senator Sherrod Brown, Justice Evette McGee Brown, U.S. Reps Fudge, Kaptur, Sutton, Ed Wade for county prosecutor, Oakar for State Board of Education, Judge Annette Butler, Passalacqua, Collier-Williams, Reali, Sweeney, Jackson, VanDress, Goldberg for judge, Judge Michael John Ryan, Judge Strickland-Saffold, Judge Nelson-Floyd, State Reps Budish, Boyd, Patmon, Williams, Barnes, Antonio, Foley, others for 2012 general election of Cuyahoga County, read the unofficial ballot here

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) FEDERAL OFFICES: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- Barack Obama (D)  SENATE AND U.S.  REPRESENTATIVES  FROM OHIO  U.S. SENATE- Sherrod Brown (D-OH) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 9TH DISTRICT- Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 11TH DISTRICT- Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 16TH DISTRICT- Dale Blanchrd (D) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 16TH DISTRICT- Betty Sutton (D-OH) STATE LEGISLATURE OFFICES: STATE REPRESENTATIVE-8TH DISTRICT- Armond Budish (D-Beachwood) STATE REPRESENTATIVE-9TH DISTRICT- Barbara Boyd (D-Cleveland Hts) STATE REPRESENTATIVE-10TH DISTRICT- Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) STATE REPRESENTATIVE- 11TH DISTRICT- Sandra Williams (D-Cleveland) STATE REPRESENTATIVE-12TH DISTRICT- John Barnes Jr. (D-Cleveand) STATE REPRESENTATIVE- 13TH DISTRICT- Nickie Antonio (D-Cleveland)
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