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By Karl Kimbrough (pictured), Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (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 ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .  CLEVELAND, Ohio- So far the 2013 Cleveland Browns offense resembles a theatrical play who's advance billing had many in anticipation to see. However, when the curtain went up, lack of talent and a seemingly unfamiliarity with the stage sent fans home wondering if they had just witnessed amateur hour at the Apollo instead. Some people may wonder why a football team would trade their most prominent offensive leader, especially when Brows officials have recently spoken of how he is supposedly a big part of their future plans. If there were a marquee over the Cleveland Browns First Ener

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 newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@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 . CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will host a testimony forum on excessive force by Cleveland and greater Cleveland police on Thursday, September 9, 2013 beginning at 5:30 pm at the Cuyahoga County Housing Authority at 8120 Kinsman Avenue in Cleveland, according to a press release from Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright. A U.S. Department of Justice representative will serve as the stenographer to record the data, Wright said. Among those testifying is Community Activist Kathy W

Anthony Weiner, left, and Eliot Spitzer. Weiner is a former congressman who lost a bid for New York City mayor in Tuesday's Democratic primary. He resigned from Congress in 2011 following a sexting scandal where he sent cell phone photographs of himself and his penis to hundreds of women. Spitzer lost the Democratic primary for city comptroller. He resigned as governor of New York in 2008 after admitting to paying a prostitute for sex. While Weiner came in dead last with only 4.9 percent of the vote, Spitzer came in second in his race and lost with 48 percent of the vote. Weiner's wife Huma Abedin is a former aide to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 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 newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelan

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic Cleveland Mayoral Candidate  Ken Lanci,  together with the  Faith, Hope & Love For A Better Cleveland Event,  has announced that  Grammy Nominated Gospel Artist VaShawn Mitchell and    National Recording Artist and Evangelist Speaker Jessica Selvy-Davis and the Selvys Singers  will headline the agenda at his September 15th Community Outreach & Healing Event to be held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center in downtown Cleveland, 2000 Prospect Avenue.  Also appearing will be the Spiritual Hi-Lites of Cleveland, Yolanda Boyd Kennedy featuring local Cleveland area singer Mike Nelson, as well as Spirit and Truth of Cleveland.  Additionally, the community healing event will feature a 300 person choir comprised of both east and west-side based choir members, including the Baptist Pastor’s Council Mass Choir and the Westside Mass Choir.  Doors open at 3 pm for the 4 pm to 6 pm   event that is free to attend. Complimentary refreshments will be s

Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman  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 ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@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 . Dear Community Activists and Victims and Victims Family Members, We will reschedule the meeting tentatively set for Thursday, September 19 at 5:30 pm at 3500 Loraine Ave in Cleveland with west side activists and east side activists and victims or their family members. It was set to prepare for our upcoming meeting with Congresswoman  Fudge on a wealth of issues including foreclosure impropriety, welfare reform,  violence against women, inequit

Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed 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 newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@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 . CLEVELAND, Ohio- In spite of a third DUI conviction that has landed him 10 days in jail later this month and his mug shot unceremoniously plastered on the cover of the Call and Post Newspaper, popular Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, 51, silenced his critics and won the nonpartisan primary by a landslide in Tuesday's election. He will face novice Marcus Henley, 26, in the November 5 general election.    (Editor's Note:Read the unofficial results from