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Johnny Manziel (left) has taken over for Brian Hoyer (right)_as the Browns' starting quarterback. (AP Photo | Don Wright)  (Don Wright)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, a rookie Browns  recruit  also nicknamed ' Mr. Football,' will start his first NFL game Sunday, Dec.14 in the showdown between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, taking over a 7-6 Browns team led by q uarterback  Brian Hoyer. In spite of  breaching  the playoffs, Hoyer was left hanging as head coach Mike Pettine chose to start the more popular Manziel. "This decision is rea

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists, led by the Oppressed People's Nation, the Imperial Women Coalition, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Puncture the Silence and Revolution Books, will rally at 5 pm on Thursday, Dec 11 at the intersection of Superior and Ansel  Roads in Cleveland, near where Tanisha Anderson was killed by Cleveland police some three weeks ago.  Anderson, who was Black,  was slammed to the sidewalk and killed while in custody after police came to the family home for a alleged non-violent mental health disturbance. The family said that they sought an ambulance through a 9-11- call, but police came instead, Police killed Anderson when she objec

Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy who was fatally shot by police speaks during a news conference at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Dec. 8, 2014.  To the left of Samaria Rice is Rice family Attorney Benjamin Crump, who also represents the families of slain Black unarmed teens  Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.  To the right of Samaria Rice is Akron based attorney Walter Madison, who will assist Crump in the controversial case that has caused racial unrest in the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.  Photo by  Aaron Josedczyk—Reuters  www.reuters.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio - Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the family of 12-year-old Cl

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 in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland, Ohio- There will be a mass protest against police killings and police brutality at 6 pm on Monday, December 8 on the steps of City Hall before the 7 pm Cleveland City Council  meeting. It will go forward with or without a meeting and is sponsored by unions (SEIU), revolutionary communists, Black activists and women activists groups, Black leaders, and others Community activists say that it is time for some members of the top brass of the Cleveland Police Department to step down and that they should not get a free pass because they are White, and male in a largely

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Tel: (216) 659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio - (See flyer below) The Word Church will sponsor a forum discussion on Monday, December 8 at 7 pm in Warrensville Heights, a largely Black suburb of Cleveland, with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Police Chief Calvin Williams and other Black leaders on the topic of whether Cleveland will become the next Ferguson as the city deals with a crisis of police killings against the Black community and a scathing report released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice that reveals systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department. Meanwhile, union groups, led by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and community activists will protest an hour earlier at 6 pm on the steps of Cleveland City Hall. The Word Church is led by Senior Pastor Dr. R.A. Vernon and is one of greater Cleveland's most prestigious religious venue

Tanisha Anderson 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 in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Tanisha Anderson, the unarmed 37-year-old schizophrenic Black woman killed three weeks ago by Cleveland police at her home on Cleveland's east side while in handcuffs, was laid to rest on Saturday, Dec 6 following funeral services at Chapel of Hope Church in Cleveland. The family is represented in the case by renowned greater Cleveland attorney David Malik. Meanwhile, the community awaits a report from the county coroner on whether Anderson's death will be ruled a homicide or something else to protect the cop that killed her. A

Cleveland Heights Municipal Court Judge A. Deane Buchanan Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock Former Bedford Municipal Court judge and convicted criminal Harry Jacob Not pictured. Bedford Municipal Court Judge Brian Melling 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 in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- As the U.S. Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, prepares to negotiate a consent decree with the city of Cleveland following an investigation that reveals systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department, from excessive force issues to Blacks and others getting illegally tasere