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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith announces a possible run for Cuyahoga County executive in wake of announcement last month by County Executive Ed FitzGerald that he will run for governor against Republican John Kasich next year, Smith, a Cleveland Democrat, is the first Black to announce (Editor's Note: Smith will hold an information and expungement clinic open to the public with law enforcement officials and affiliates of the OBCI relative to a new state law for exungement of select criminal records that she co-sponsored that Kasich supported, the clinic is for people that qualify to have criminal records sealed under the new law and will be held on May 23 at 4 pm at the CSU Wolstein Center, 2000 Prospect Ave in Cleveland, people with criminal warrants should consult an attorney first, Blacks get harsher criminal sentences than their White counterparts in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas led by Chief Judge Nancy Fuerst, a Cleveland NAACP study that is gathering dust to protect the establishment found)

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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21), a Cleveland Democrat By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-21) is the first Black to announce that she might run for Cuyahoga County executive next year in the wake of a formal announcement late last month by County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a Democrat like Smith and former FBI agent and Lakewood mayor, that he will not seek reelection and will instead run as the likely Democratic nominee against Republican John Kasich in the 2014 gubernatorial election.  A prior state representative and state senator since 2007, Smith would not go into detail with Cleveland Urban News.Com on her proposed run for one of the most powerful offices
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Obama nominates Hyatt Hotel heir Penny Pritzker as commerce secretary on her May 2 birthday, president to speak at OSU commencement in Columbus on May 5

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Penny Pritzker From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 United States President Barack Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Obama on Thursday announced his nomination of philanthropist Penny Pritzker for U.S. commerce secretary, and it just happen to be Pritzker's birthday on that day of May 2. The president also announced that he will perform the keynote address for commencement ceremonies at The Ohio University in Columbus on May 5. Both announcements make it clear that Obama knows that women, through his nomination of Pritzker, and Ohio, a pivotal state, matter in presidential elections.  A fundraising strategist and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune Pritzker, 54, has 25 years of managerial experience in industry, and is a real est
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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson draws formidable reelection challenger this year in Ken Lanci following his slowness in disciplining group of White Cleveland police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in November with 137 bullets, Jackson, who is Black and also controls Cleveland schools by state law, is supported by The Old Black Political Guard, city council, Black clergy, business community and some community activists, and Lanci, a millionaire White businessman, has money to wage a mayoral election fight, Lanci to announce on Monday that he will run against Jackson (Editor's Note: A Cleveland police captain, lieutenant, and 10 police supervisors to be disciplined ranging from a 10 day suspension to possible termination for deadly November car chase the mayor and police chief said, the 13 police officers that gunned down Tim and Malissa with a combined 137 bullets are still on job with no criminal charges against them)

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Cleveland Mayoral Hopeful and Millionaire Businessman Ken Lanci, who will announce on Monday that he will run for mayor this year Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND,Ohio- In the midst of community fallout about his slowness in disciplining police responsible for gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 137 bullets following a high speed car chase from downtown Cleveland on Nov. 29 that ended in neighboring East Cleveland, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has drawn a formidable challenger for this year's mayoral race in Democratic millionaire businessman Ken Lanci. And race is inevitably at play too where the two term biracial Jackson, also a Democrat and f
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Community activists target Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty at April 29 Cleveland City Hall 150 persons rally on November deadly 137 bullets police chase, Mayor Jackson blames McGinty for delay in possible police firings, FEDS forum held across town with U.S. district attorney, NAACP, ACLU, watch the coverage of the City Hall rally here with video by 19 Action News Reporter Tiffiani Tucker, activists threaten Mayor Frank Jackson with voting him out of office this year if the 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets are not fired

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor The Rev.  Larry Harris Black on Black Crime Inc. Founder and Community Activist Art McKoy Black on Black Crime Vice President  and Community Activist Al Porter (center) and other members of the grassroots community group that fights against injustices. Community Activist Don Bryant, who leads The People's Forum and The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network. Bryant and other community activists called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to bring in a special prosecutor at a Cleveland City Hall rally on Monday. The demand for McGinty's recusal is  relative to the possible Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indictment of Cleveland police officers who gunned down two unarmed Blacks w
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Was the deadly 137 bullets Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell self defense or murder?... Watch the 19 Action News coverage by Reporter Dan Deroos with the affiliated news video here at Cleveland Urban News.com.... Deroos and News Channels 3, 5, and 8 all were there at the April 24 rally that addressed that question, a rally led by Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman that drew some 300 people and was sponsored by Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation, and other activists groups at the Chateau Mansion in East Cleveland ...Community activists and victims family members will rally again on April 29 at 6 pm in front of Cleveland City Hall... (Note: The April 24 rally also dealt with unjustified Cleveland police shootings of Kenneth Smith and Daniel Ficker, and the unsolved rape and murders of Black women Jazmine Trotter and Christine Malone, issues that will also be addressed at the upcoming April 29, Cleveland City Hall rally)

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A woman holds up a protest sign at a rally at Public Square in downtown Cleveland that highlights that unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell were gunned down with 137 rounds of ammunition by a group of White Cleveland police officers that have yet to be criminally charged and are still on the job. The unprecedented shooting occurred late last year following a car chase that ultimately culminated in 65 police cars and over 100 police officers. The chase began from a downtown Cleveland location and ended in neighboring East Cleveland with a hail of bullets. One police officer jumped on the hood of the 1979 Chevy Malibu that Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger and shot through the front windshield over 40 times.  Community activists and victims family members will  hold another of several protests over the issue that has caused racial unrest and has increased tensions between police and the Black community at 6 pm on April 29 at Cleveland City Hall (Next to the w
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Upcoming April 29, 6 pm Cleveland City Hall mass rally by community activists and victims families on deadly 137 bullets Cleveland police chase, other fatal police shootings and the rape and murders of Black women makes national news. Read the article here with comments by Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath and Community Activist and Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman. Rally sponsoring groups include The Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation (OPN), The Task Force for Community Mobilization, and Peace in the Hood

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Below is an April 25 national and  international news article on the upcoming   April 29, 6 pm mass protest at Cleveland City Hall by community activists and victims families as to  deadly  Cleveland police  shootings  of unarmed people, including 137 bullets Black victims Malissa Williams, 30, and Tim Russell  Russell, 43 (both pictured above). The below article is published by both Yahoo News.Com and the Reuters European Newspaper, one of the world's oldest newspapers that is headquartered in London and the United Kingdom with thousands of reporters, some stationed throughout the U.S (Note: The mass rally will also address Cleveland police unjustified killings of other people like aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith, 20, (music name Kenneth Ball), and Daniel Fick
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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to run for Ohio Governor in 2014, will announce it tomorrow and he will likely run against Republican Governor John Kasich, FitzGerald must first win the Democratic primary next year with Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern as his chief supporter, State Senator Turner likely to run for Ohio Secretary of State on ticket with FitzGerald

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a former FBI agent, will make stops in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati on Wednesday April 24 to announce that he will run for governor of Ohio in 2014 against incumbent governor John Kasich, if he wins the Democratic primary. And that might be a likely posture since his candidacy is supported by Chris Redfern, head of the Ohio Democratic Party, and perspective contenders such as former Ohio Congresswoman Betty Sutton, and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, now the U.S. Consumer Bureau chief, have bowed out. Chris Redfern Kasich is the front runner polls show and is ahead of FitzGerald by 10 points. But political polls can and often do change during the course of an election a
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