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By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief,  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 ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist  who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper ARLINGTON, Texas-  The University of Connecticut Huskies  beat the University of Kentucky Wildcats Monday night 60-54 at the AT & T Stadium in Arlington, Texas  to win its fourth men's NCAA Championship and second in four years. The loss denied Kentucky coach John Calipari his second championship in three years. Kentucky, who beat Louisville in the Sweet Sixteen and then Michigan to take on UConn for the final game of the championship series, has  won eight men's basketball championships, the second-most in the NCAA's Division I behind UCLA. UConn's w

Ann Romans Ann Romans, center, with her son Anthony Jones and his wife Loretta, and her grandchildren Aryanna Jones and Anthony Jones II during the annual 11th Congressional District Caucus Parade in Cleveland, Ohio By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, 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 ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ann R. Romans, 84, of Marietta, Georgia and a native of Cleveland, Ohio passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 11 at the Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Church at 11205 Euclid Ave in Cleveland with a wake at 1 pm and funeral services at 2 pm.  Services are entrusted to E.F. Boyd &a

Debra Adams Simmons By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief,  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 ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist  who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper CLEVELAND, Ohio-Debra Adams Simmons, the first Black female editor of The Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, has been named vice president of news development for Advance Local, a parent company which owns the Plain Dealer and some 30 other newspapers nationwide. Her last day of work is April 21. Managing Editor Thom Fladung will continue with the day to day operations of the newspaper, newspaper officials said earlier today, while a national search is underway for a replacement editor. Simmons became editor in 2010 and is a former editor of

Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) and Ohio Governor John Kasich (R-OH) 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 ) Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) and Ohio Gov John Kasich have each sent letters to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx urging the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) to grant the state of Ohio a waiver to the Department’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program for upcoming projects in the city of Cleveland.   Kasich is requesting the USDOT waiver to enable the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to implement a pilot project that would increase minority business participation in projects to reflect the City of Cleveland’s demographics.  Congresswoman Fudge, whose majority Black 11th congres

Miami Heat Forward LeBron James 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 Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-When asked if he heard the boos during his latest return to Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena for a bout between the Cavaliers and the Miami Heat, Miami Heat forward LeBron James, once the prince of the Cavaliers, said that “ yes its a mixture, I hear them both." James said that "nothing can ever get as worse as the first time I came back and its just been different every time since we played here December 2, 2010.” In this game though James had his shot going from the tip of the ball in the first quarter as he scored 25 points. Remarkabl

U.S. Rep Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and also chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress. Fudge urges her constituents and others that have not done so already to sign up for Obamacare by the Monday, March 31 deadline for the first round. Read below where to sign up. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, who joined  Congresswoman Fudge in Cleveland  last week in support of Obamacare (The Affordability Care Act) at MetroHealth Hospital  MetroHealth Hospital President Dr. Akram Boutros, M.D. By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, 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 ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Bl

By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, 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 ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio- The housing committee of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP will take testimony for the NAACP in efforts to promote state and federal legislation to address the problems of  housing discrimination, foreclosures, mortgage impropriety and the abundance of abandoned homes that draw crime and heightened violence against women of greater Cleveland and elsewhere. The open-to-the-public meeting in which all community members that want to listen in or testify are invited,