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Former 11th Congressional District  Congressman Louis Stokes By former Congressman Louis Stokes,  a Shaker Heights, Ohio Democrat and former senior counsel with the Squire, Sanders and Dempsey  law  firm who led the 11th congressional district, which is now led by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge,  a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress. Congressman  Stokes addresses below  efforts  to steal the Black vote in Ohio via voter  suppression  bills signed into law this year by Republican Governor John Kasich. The new state laws limit  early  voting, among other  strategies  to intimidate Black,  elderly  and low-income voters,  Click here to join the fight for voting rights in Ohio.   That fight is also being taken up by Democratic candidate for governor Ed FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County executive. Cuyahoga County is the  state's  largest of 88 counties and includes the largely Blacks cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland.

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora,  also the former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party 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 ) CINCINNATI, Ohio-Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, also a former chair of the powerful Cuyahoga County Democratic Party,  is asking a federal appeals court to reverse his convictions on 32 corruption-related charges, including racketeering, and his attorneys want a new trial. Oral arguments were held yesterday morning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which will issue its ruling in upcoming

By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Cavaliers Center Spenser Hawes Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-Several NBA teams, including our Cleveland Cavaliers, made moves recently to strengthen their teams for the playoff run this year. Some teams made trades, some cleared roster space to add players, and some did both. There were not many high profiled players changing teams late this season. But most of the players who went to contending teams have helped them. The Cavaliers, who have not lived up to their own expectations as a strong contender for a playoff position all season, made one last effort by trading forwards Earl Clark, Henry Sims for

Article below was originally printed here on July 13, 2013 and has been updated as of March 10, 2014.  (The nigger name calling employee of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty's office of Lily Miller is still harassing and defaming Blacks and women that  criticize the corrupt and neurotic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a midget with a Napoleon Complex who harasses Black women and others he cannot control. Read the reprinted article below. Miller, a trashy White woman, has no college degree and works in the child support enforcement department for McGinty for the county. But she is really paid to allegedly harass Blacks, women, community activists, reporters and McGinty's perceived enemies, an investigation reveals). Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who condones "nigger" name calling by his employees of his office like Lily Miller, who also has put it in writing and on the Internet to hang Blacks and to "hang him high". Miller

Captain Joellen  O'Neil, whom Cleveland Mayor  Frank Jackson promoted  on  Monday to  deputy   police  chief, the first  woman executive police officer since 2001. PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA: 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   newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com  and by phone at 216-659-0473. Press Release To All Media: Contact Imperial Women Activists  Group, Kathy Wray Coleman, 216-659-0473 Community activists women are applauding the appointment on Monday by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson of Capt. Joellen  O' Neil, a White woman,  as a deputy police chief, the first female executive police officer in Cleveland since 2001 when Mary Bounds, who is Black, was appointed chief of police.  Last month the mayor demoted safety director Martin Flask, gave chief of police Mic

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 ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor who is two months into his third four-year term, gave his State of the City address on Wednesday at Public Auditorium and surprised people by giving the Cleveland Police Department a 'B' grade and an 'A' for professionalism, even in the wake of a deadly 137 shots gunning down of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell by 13 all non-Black police officers who are still on the job. Moreover, the Ohio Bureau of Identification