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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Meredith Tucker hired by Ohio Democratic Party as its communications director as statewide elections loom, including race for Ohio governor, polls show that women, Blacks will likely determine gubernatorial race

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Meredith Tucker By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio  – As the elections for Ohio governor and other statewide offices for secretary of state , auditor, attorney general, and treasurer  loom the Ohio Democratic Party announced earlier this week that it has hired Meredith Tucker as its communications director, a powerful roll previously held by Jared Kurtz, who left to run a state campaign elsewhere. "Today, the Ohio Democratic Party announced changes to its staff as it puts in place a team to elect Ed FitzGerald and Democrats all the way down the ballot who are committed
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Kentucky State University Concert Choir to perform at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland at 4 pm on Sunday, March 16, 2014, choir is under the direction of Dr Phillip K. Rogers, Kimberly Smith is president of the KSU Alumni Cleveland Chapter

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. ( Kathy Wray Coleman is a graduate of Kentucky State University . She is also is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Kentucky State University Concert Choir will perform on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 4 pm at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland,  8869 Cedar Rd in Cleveland, telephone number 216-421-1516.  Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students, and can be purchased at the door, organizers said. Under the direction of Dr. Phillip K. Rogers, the choir tours annually and is nationally known. It has been touring each spring for more than 50 years. The KSU Alumni Cleveland Chapter, led by Kimberly Smith, a Cleveland schools teacher, is also hosting the event. Located
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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Press release: Community activists hold rally and call for indictments in deadly Cleveland police chase, support Police Chief Williams' new police chase policies, a message from Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland NAACP President the Rev Hilton Smith attends rally, new policy bars high speed police chases absent suspected violent felony or OVI

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Subject: Press Release on 137 shots aftermath rally coverage by mainstream media..Read below.. A message from journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman (Note: Activists  never planned the 137 shots rally in East Cleveland on March 6  for Heritage Middle School where a parent teacher conference was being held.  That was some of community activist Art McKoy's slickness for a Channel 5 article with coverage. He is becoming a distraction and a tool for the media, himself and the police, some believe. The rally went forward as planned at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, a neighboring Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, Ohio). PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA : FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS APPLAUD NEW CLEVELAND POLICE CHIEF VEHICLE PURSUIT POLICIES (NOTE: The Cleveland urban news.com article on this is coming ( WWW.CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM ) Kathy Wray Coleman Dear Mainstream Media that attended the deadly 1
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Activists, victims family members to hold candlelight vigil and rally on March 6, 2014 at 5 pm to call for 13 Cleveland cops that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 shots to be indicted criminally, event is at intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, Ohio near Heritage Middle School where the deadly shooting occurred

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community  activists groups, victims and victims family members of police brutality and Black elected officials will hold a rally and candlelight vigil at 5 pm near Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at 14410 Terrace Road on Thursday March 6, 2014 to call for a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury currently hearing evidence from County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to issue a criminal indictment against the 13 all non-Black Cleveland cops that gunned down  unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 31, and Timothy Russell, 43. Both were killed with a hail of 137 Cleveland police bullets on November 29, 2012 following a pol
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'12 Years a Slave' wins Oscar for best picture, Steve McQueen is first Black director to win Oscar for best picture, Lupita Nyong'o, also Black, wins Oscar for best supporting actress in the film, read the list of 2014 Oscar winners here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, the motion picture movie was produced by Actor Brad Pitt, John Ridley, who is also Black, wins for best adapted screenplay for the movie

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Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) stars in '12 Years a  Slave,' the epic drama that took home the Oscar for best picture Sunday night at the 86th Annual Academy Awards By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) LOS ANGELES, California  — The brutal  historical drama '12 Years a  Slave' won best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards Sunday night. Director Steve McQueen Steve McQueen’s slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir, out did best picture nominees Gravity, Captain Phillips, Philomena,  The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, and The Dallas Buyers Club. McQu
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Congresswoman Fudge applauds the reallocation of federal funds for land bank monies for demolition to tackle blight in Cuyahoga, Summit Counties in Ohio caused by foreclosures, abandoned homes, Fudge says monies will help restore property values impacted by foreclosures, vacant homes

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Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), a Warrensville Heights Democrat, who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Warrensville Heights, OH –  Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, released a press statement today following the announcement by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) of first-round funding awards to land banks in 11 counties throughout the nation through the the Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP).  The program is
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Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes bought homes for cheap stolen by former county sheriffs through illegal foreclosures, NAACP affiliates Attorneys James Hardiman, Michael Nelson are shielding White judges, police and other culprits hurting Blacks, community activists call on current Cleveland NAACP President the Rev Hilton Smith to speak out, activists are considering another picket of the Cleveland NAACP, activists say Cleveland police that gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 137 bullets are protected because NAACP officials will not speak up

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From the Metro Desk of   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) From top left: Former Cleveland NAACP President and Current Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes, Attorney and Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman, Attorney Michael Nelson, Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, then under the leadership of chapter president George Forbes,  protected the theft of homes through illegal foreclosures by judges, county prosecutors and former county sheriffs Gerald McFaul and Bob Reid, as Forbes bought hundreds of the houses for cheap, including in the cities of Cleveland and  East Cleveland, and he protected malfeasance against the Black community by corrupt White j
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