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Kyrie is back as he and Kobe dazzle fans at the Q as Cavaliers beat the Lakers 100 to 94, Cavs Coach Byron Scott says excellent defense was key to winning

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Kobe Bryant, left, and Kyrie Irving Cleveland Cavaliers Coach Byron Scott By Karl Kimbrough, Sportswriter, Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Quicken Loan arena was a buzz Tuesday night. You could tell something special was about to happen. The fans who came to see the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Los Angeles Lakers were not disappointed as the Cavs would win 100 to 94. After the game Cavaliers Coach Bryon Scott said that his team came through because of excellent defensive strategies, though he acknowledged that Kyrie helped too.  “As much as we talk about Kyrie, as much as we talk about some of the other individuals  who had great games, defensively we were great, really, for 48 minutes," said Scott. "We played some of our best defense.”  After three long weeks of absence, Kyrie Irving was back, and he brought his awe inspiring skill set with him. Adding spice to this ma
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Community forum sponsored by Cleveland NAACP on 137 bullets deadly shootings is Friday at 6 pm at Shaw High School, police, Mayor Norton, city officials to answer community questions, community activists to protest there at 5:30 pm for FBI control of investigation, role of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who took campaign contributions and was endorsed for election by Cleveland police union

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton Cleveland NAACP Interim Director Arlene Anderson Community Activist Art McKoy, a founder of the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. Community Activist Khalid Samad, who leads the grassroots group Peace in the Hood  Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a controversial figure and retired Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge who took campaign contributions and was endorsed this year for election for the seat by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. Community activists are investigating his role in the investigation as a potential conflict of interest.  Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both shot at 137 times and gunned down two weeks ago by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from Cleveland that led into East Cleveland, a nearby predominantly Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, which is also majority Black and Ohio's second larges
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United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice withdraws from consideration for U.S. secretary of state in letter to President Obama, had Rice been nominated and confirmed she would have been the first Black Democrat, third Black and second Black female to hold the post, she is the first African- American ambassador to the United Nations

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United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice,  the first African-American to hold the post who earlier today withdrew  from consideration as U. S. secretary of state to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in a letter to President Barack Obama who accepted it and said that Rice is an exemplary public servant subject to unfair attacks by Republican operatives.   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 ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a letter today to President Barack Obama U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice withdrew her name for consideration for United States secretary of state following criticism by Republican lawmakers of her comments on Islam and her description of the  Sept 11 attacks on the U.S.  diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya which  left four dead, including U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. "I am
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Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge sends letter to U.S. Department of Justice, office of Civil Rights seeking an independent and an FBI investigation of 137-bullets-shooting-deaths of unarmed Black victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell by White Cleveland police officers, says Cleveland Police Department discriminates against Blacks, community activists want FBI to lead investigation and say Cleveland and East Cleveland officials and police should step aside completely, call police investigating each other commensurate to the "fox guarding the hen house," Olivet Institutional Baptist Church pastor wants justice department investigation too, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has no Blacks in any top law enforcement leadership roles in a majority Black city

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Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), also chair-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell Community Activist Art McKoy, who leads the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. 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 ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Hts. Democrat and chairman-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) whose majority Black 11th congressional district includes the east side of Cleveland, its eastern suburbs and a small pocket of Akron and staggering parts of its Summit County suburbs, has called for an independent investigation by the United States Department of Justice and the FBI around the 137-bullets- shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers  two wee
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President Obama meets with House Speaker John Boehner on fiscal cliff issue, Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, also chair- elect of the Congressional Black Caucus, says congressional cuts to avoid the fiscal cliff must not be on the backs of the middle class, Blacks, poor people, AFL-CIO pickets federal building in Cleveland around fiscal cliff demanding that Congress renew tax cuts to middle class and working poor and payroll tax cut for working Americans

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Democratic Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) of Ohio, also the chair-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus      Democratic United States President Barack Obama                                Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner of Ohio (R-8) 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 ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Barack Obama is trying to make due on his campaign promise to stop atrocious tax cuts for the rich to the detriment of middle-class and poor people, meeting with Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (R-8) of Ohio on Sunday to discuss efforts to avoid the "fiscal cliff." And what is the fiscal cliff, and how does it impact federal tax increases, spending cuts and the federal deficit? The fiscal cliff is a term used relative t
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Timothy Ray Russell, one of two unarmed Black victims gunned down and shot at 137 times by a group of White Cleveland police officers, is laid to rest

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Timothy Ray Russell 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 ) TWINSBURG,Ohio- Timothy Ray Russell, one of two unarmed Black victims gunned down a week and a half ago by a group of anxious White Cleveland police and shot at 137 times after a car chase from Cleveland that ended in tragedy in East Cleveland, was laid to rest on Saturday at the Sanctuary of Praise in Twinsburg, Oh, a Cleveland suburb. Russell, 43, was driving the car that police say backfired in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Nov. 29, causing some 30 police cars to chase him and passenger Malissa Williams, 30, for more than 25 minutes until surrounding the car at Wymore and Terrace Avenues in East Cleveland and putting 137 bullets into it. No gun or gun shell casings were found in or near the car, police said and police union leaders told reporters las
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Community forum sponsored by Mayor Jackson, Cleveland NAACP on 137 -bullets- shooting- deaths of Black unarmed victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell with mayor, police chief others gets heated, activists chant no justice no peace, police chief agrees with victims family that some Cleveland police might be racist, family members, community activists still outraged

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell 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-A community forum held yesterday at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland and sponsored by the Cleveland Chapter NAACP and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to address community outcries over the 137-bullets-shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers of Black unarmed victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell, neither of whom was in trouble with the law, got heated as family members, community activists and others looked for answers. "We are here to bring calm to the community," said the Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness, senior pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church who is also second vice president of the Cleveland NAACP and the executive director of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 
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