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Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough   By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter. Reach Kimbrough at kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com.  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) . Tel (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Last year at about this time during training camp Jimmy Haslam suddenly appeared on the scene of Browns Town as the team's new owner. He would immediately begin to patrol the side lines in Berea, Ohio where the team practices. By his mere presence on a consistent basis in contrast to previous owner Randy Lerner, fans, players and management know there is a new sheriff in town. By his optimistic expectation to establish a winner, Haslam has reinvigorated Browns fans.   So when the season 5-11 record drew to a merciful end last year

Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - In the wake of heightened violence against women in greater Cleveland from the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, to the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer Anthony Sowell, to the three Black women whose bodies were found in East Cleveland wrapped in garbage bags last month allegedly at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison, graduates  from Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed and the

Ariel Castro  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight CLEVELAND, Ohio- Demolition crews on tomorrow morning will tear down the home on Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side where convicted rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro held  Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry  and Michelle Knight captive for about a decade until they escaped earlier this year. Castro turned the home over to the Cuyahoga County Land Bank as part of a plea deal that got him a sentence last week of life in prison

From Left: Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), State Representative Sandra Williams (D-11), State Representative Armond Budish (D-9) and State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) and state Reps. Sandra Williams (D-11) and Armond Budish (D-9) will host a town hall meeting on House Bill 59, the state budget bill, on Monday, August 5, 2013  from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, though tickets

  Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge. Photo courtesy of Rep. Marcia Fudge P rint By Sabrina Eaton, Plain Dealer Washington Reporter The Plain Dealer Follow on Twitter on July 30, 2013 at 6:25 PM, updated July 30, 2013 at 7:12 PM Even though they don't control the House of Representatives this term, Democrats can still make points by booking meeting rooms and inviting witnesses to testify at unofficial hearings on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, the Congressional Black Caucus led by Marcia Fudge of Warrensville Heights, used that prerogative to convene a "conversation on race and justice in America" where they expressed displeasure with events like the  Supreme Court's decision  to strike down portions of the federal Voting Rights Act and the  acquittal  of Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last year. Calling race "a topic that has too long been a thor

Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    CLEVELAND, Ohio-East side Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson has won the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party endorsement for the new ward 10,  a ward drawn earlier this year through redistricting to reduce city council from 19 to 17 seats effective next year and after the upcoming November election. The victory for Johnson from the Democratic party's executive committee comes after the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections deemed an endorsement vote by Councilman Eugene

Ariel Castro CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Russo sentenced Ariel Castro to life in prison without the possibility of parole on August 1 for kidnapping and raping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and holding the three women captive for 10 years at his west side home on Seymour Ave in Cleveland, Oh., a celebrated case that has captured the nation's attention. "Nobody should have to go through what I went through," said Knight in a prepared statement. Knight said that her bond with DeJesus  helped her make it through the unprecedented ordeal that she dubbed "11 years in hell." Addressing Castro in the packed courtroom, Knight said that "I will live on, you will die a little every day."   Neither DeJesus nor Berry spoke at the sentencing.  DeJesus' cousin spoke on her behalf and Berry's sister spoke for her. DeJesus was held captive for nine years against her will, Berry 10, and