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11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio –  11th Congressional District  Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge   (OH-11) will host the district’s first   Agriculture College and Career Fair   on Saturday, April 19, 2014   at Case Western Reserve University at the  Veale Center Gymnasium, 2138 Adelbert Road, in Cleveland, Ohio.  This free event, held from 9 am to 3 pm with the congresswoman scheduled to speak at 9:45 am,  is designed for high school and college-age students who may be considering a degree in agriculture or a related field.  There is no cost but students are strongly encouraged to pre-register.  Please contact Ariella Brown in the congresswoman’s Cuyahoga County District office by phone (216)-522-4900 or by email at  Ariella.Brown@mail.house.gov Participating universities, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and various agriculture related organizations will provide workshops and info

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  Cleveland Chapter NAACP entertained a discussion by community activists at its general membership meeting yesterday   at the University Circle  United Methodist Church  in Cleveland. Issues  include  education,  the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell,  housing discrimination, foreclosures, abandoned homes, the rape and murder of greater Cleveland   women, and police complacency, ineptness and

Source:  John Bacon / USA Today The Rev. Al Sharpton is denying claims made by The Smoking Gun  website that he worked as an FBI mob informant in the 1980s. The website, in a voluminous  story  published Monday, said eight federal judges signed wiretap directives based at least in part on information provided by the civil rights leader and MSNBC talk show host. One Genovese crime family member admitted speaking openly to Sharpton about extortion, death threats and other crimes while Sharpton’s FBI-provided briefcase secretly recorded the conversation, the story says. RELATED:  WASHINGTON WATCH: Rev. Al Sharpton Discusses His Weight Loss & Reinvention (VIDEO) The website says its account of Sharpton’s secret life as “CI-7″ — confidential informant number 7 — was based on hundreds of pages of confidential FBI affidavits, documents released by the bureau in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, court records, and extensive interviews with six members of an FBI/N

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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, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio- The  Cleveland Chapter NAACP will entertain a discussion by community activists and affiliated victims or their family members at its general membership meeting at 7:30 pm tonight, April 14, 2014 at the University Circle  United Methodist Church where regular meeting are held at 1919 E. 107th St and Chester Avenue in Cleveland. Issues include the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell,  housing discrimination,

The late Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (left) and United States President Barack  Obama, the nation's first Black president. THE JULY 2, 1964 SIGNING INTO LAW  OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 BY PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON. DIRECTLY BEHIND THE PRESIDENT IS CIVIL RIGHTS ICON THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR . ( East Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Photo by Cecil Stoughton).  The  Civil Rights Act of 1964   , passed by Congress and enacted on July 2, 1964, is a landmark piece of  civil rights  legislation in the  United States [4]  that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.  This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive in Austin, Texas for a summit commentating the 50th Anniversary of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-n-Chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urba

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