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Black Women's PAC announces endorsements for the November 4, 2014 election in Ohio and Cuyahoga County, the group makes no endorsement for governor, endorses, among others, and for some hotly contested races Nina Turner, Connie Pilich, Armond Budish, Francine Goldberg, read the full list of endorsements here for statewide, state legislative, congressional, and judicial elections and for open seats on Cuyahoga County Council, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, paid for by the BLACK Women's PAC, Una H.R. Kennon, president

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BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE  ENDORSEMENT RESULTS FOR THE NOVEMBER 4, 2014 GENERAL ELECTION IN OHIO AND CUYAHOGA COUNTY (THE BWPAC WAS FOUNDED IN 1983 AND  IS OHIO'S LARGEST AND MOST PROMINENT  BLACK WOMEN'S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE) Paid for by the Black Women's PAC, Una H.R. Keenon, president To advertise with Cleveland Urban News.Com,  Ohio's leader  in  Black  digital news,   email us at advertising@clevelandurbannews.com and call  us  by phone at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Una H.R. Keenon, BWPAC president (pictured below)  (Editor's Note: Not all the  offices up for grabs have endorsements, which came following review and voting by  members of the BWPAC on September 13, 2014.  The common pleas judge endorsements are for open seats  in Cuyahoga  County, Ohio' largest of 88 counties statewide.  Also, the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals is a state ap
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Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper hospitalized, Harper and Call and Post Publisher Don King, a renowned boxing promoter, were the first of the more than 215 African-American Newspapers to endorse now president Barack Obama

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Connie Harper 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. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Beloved Call and Post Newspaper Assoc. Publisher and Exec. Editor Connie Harper, 81, is currently  hospitalized in  Dayton, Ohio after  falling ill  on Sunday at the  homecoming of Central State University. Harper is also the CSU Cleveland alumni chapter president.  CSU is Ohio's only historically Black public college or university.  The family is requesting privacy , a press release said.  Raised in Cleveland and the youngest of five female siblings, two of
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A&E national television channel to feature the story of Cleveland murder victim Christine Malone on the show 'The First 48' at 9 pm on Oct 23, A&E contracts with city of Cleveland to bring awareness to violence against women, compliments of Mayor Frank Jackson, Imperial Women Coalition thank the mayor for his efforts, activists, victims and victims family members, Black leaders and others will rally at 4 pm on Oct 29 on Imperial Avenue as to the Fifth Anniversary of The Imperial Avenue Murders

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Christine Malone Murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone and Ashley Leszyeski. Their assailants are still at large, Cleveland police said.  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, Ohio'sleaders in Black digital news    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- National cable channel A&E will feature Cleveland  murder victim Christine Malone on its documentary television series "The First 48," which will air at 9 pm on Thursday, Oct 23, producers and Malone's family told Cleveland Urban News.Com yesterday.  "The story on our mother will air this week," said Angelique Malone, one of eight grown children of Christine Malone and now a community activist and one of several keynote speakers at the upcoming Oct 29 4 pm rally on  violence against women on Imperial Avenue
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporter Mark Namik's story on the Cleveland NAACP and potential racial unrest if 49 shots Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo, who is White, gets off for gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, 12 other non- Black Cleveland police officers who together fired 88 shots at Russell and Williams were not charged, read the introduction of Namik's story here

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Cleveland police shooting trial, justice department  investigation test local NAACP: By  Mark Naymik,  The Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio's Largest Newspaper Two upcoming events will test the Cleveland branch of the NAACP: The U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into the Cleveland police department and the trial of the Cleveland officer accused of killing two unarmed suspects after the infamous November 2012 police chase. (Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer)  (Marvin Fong) By  Mark Naymik, Northeast Ohio Media Group  Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter on October 21, 2014 at 9:00 AM, updated  October 21, 2014 at 9:14 AM Reddit CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two upcoming events will require the Cleveland branch of the NAACP to step up if the storied 102-year-old civil rights organization wants to remain relevant. One is the release of the U.S. Department of Justice's  investigation into the Cleveland police depar
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