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Ohio State Representative John E. Barnes Jr. (D-12) 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   K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Black Democratic Ohio state legislator has sued the Ohio Democratic Party and its outgoing chairman, Chris Redfern, who, in spite of his powerful role as state party chairman, saw popular incumbent Republican Gov John Kasich win reelection by a landslide on Nov 4, coupled with a Republican sweep of all statewide offices. And the all so wounded Redfern, who is White, also lost his own state representative race. State Rep John E. Barnes Jr., a Black Cleveland Democrat whom voters reelected to the 12th house district, w

Dr. Cornel West 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 ) Bob Avakian CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - A bus is slated to leave from the Revolution Books Book Store on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights at 4 am on Saturday, Nov 15 for New York City for a speaking engagement and national dialogue later that afternoon at Riverside Church in the Big Apple. The event will be led by Revolution Books national leader Bob Avakian, a devout communist, and African-American scholar and motivational speaker Dr. Cornel West, both vocal critics of President Barack Obama, America's first Black president. Avakian, 71, also a political activist who was jailed in the early 1970s for desecrating the American flag at a demonstration, and for his aggressive activism against the American government,  has been th

International boxing promoter and Call and Post publisher and owner Don King 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   K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Call and Post owner and publisher Don King, a Cleveland native and renowned international boxing promoter, wrote a farewell letter dated Nov. 12 to the newspaper about associate publisher and executive editor Constance "Connie" Harper, 81, who died Oct 24 after a heart condition after falling ill a week earlier at the homecoming of Central State University, her Alma Mater. Harper was also a former vice president of Don King Productions and promoted fights for King, 83, across the world.

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 ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio-Per the urging of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland City Council voted 16-1 at its regular meeting on Monday evening to adopt legislation against a tentative collective bargaining agreement between the city and the firefighter's union because of a controversial provision that eliminates a longstanding clause that requires that any firefighter convicted of domestic violence is immediately terminated. The stalemate sends the two parties, the firefighters union and the city of Cleveland, back to the negotiating table. City council has 30 days to approve a contract, tentatively. Ongoing fighting between union leaders and the Jackson administration has stalled negotiations for a new two

Top row from left:  NAACP National Director of Unit Field Operations and Membership The Rev. Gill Ford, Cleveland  NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright  and The Rev Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness Second row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Secretary Arlene Anderson, Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President  Bishop E.F. Perry, Cleveland NAACP Second Vice President Sara J. Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge, and Attorney James Hardiman. 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.kathywraycolemanonlinene

12-year-old Davia Garth 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   K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Booking photo of suspected child murderer Rufus Gray CLEVELAND, Ohio  - Hundreds turned out for the funeral of 12-year-old Davia Garth on Sat.,  Nov 8 at at  Body of Christ Church  on Miles Road on Cleveland's largely Black east side. Garth was murdered on Oct. 30 at the family home on Cleveland's east side, allegedly at the hands of her stepfather,  Rufus Gray, 59, who is currently in custody and facing aggravated murder and other charges. At Saturday's heart wrenching funeral Davia Garth' principal, Willie Banks III,  teachers and stu

Loretta Lynch 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   K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) United States President Barack Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, is poised to nominate the first Black woman United States attorney general, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said late Friday in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news. "Ms. Lynch [Loretta Lynch]   is a strong, independent prosecutor who has twice led one of the most important U.S. Attorney’s offices in the country," said Earnest. "She will succeed Eric Holder, whose tenure has been marke