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David Pepper elected new chairman of Ohio Democrat Party as the 2016 presidential election nears and Ohio remains a pivotal state, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Newly elected Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper 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. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  COLUMBUS, Ohio -As the 2016 presidential election nears and Ohio remains a pivotal state, David Pepper was elected chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party on Tuesday by the party's executive committee, replacing Chris Redfern, who quit election night following a Republican sweep of statewide offices, including governor, auditor, treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general. The Republicans also control both lawmaking chambers of the Ohio General Assembly, namely the

Cleveland City Council to hold public meeting on DOJ report of police brutality and deadly force on Thursday, December 18 at the Harvard Community Services Center in Cleveland, rallies scheduled for 10 am on December 20 and 21 for Tamir Rice at Cudell Recreation Center

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Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt Cleveland Councilman and Safety Committee Chairman Matt Zone   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. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland City Council Safety Committee Chairman Matt Zone, a west side councilman, and Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt,  will host an open-to-the-public meeting on Thursday, Dec 18 a 6 pm at the Harvard Community Services Center on Cleveland's east side around the report issued from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder two and a half weeks ago that found systemic problems in the largely White Cleve

DOJ public meeting with Cleveland community on police brutality is December 15 at 7 pm at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Cleveland, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder found systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department from illegal deadly force to vicious pistil whippings of adults and children, and cruel and unusual punishment of the mentally ill, community activists object to Black Cleveland police chief lobbying to protect White cop that shot and killed Tamir

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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. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  From left: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach of the northern district of Ohio, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio- Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice will hold an open-to-the public community meeting at 7 pm on Monday, Dec 15 at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Cleveland around the report issued from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder two weeks ago that found systemic problems in the largely White Cleveland Police Department. Doors open at 6:30 pm, organizers of the eve

Tamir Rice death by Cleveland police ruled a homicide a day before his mother takes center stage at March on Washington, Cleveland activists go in support of Rice, others, Samaria Rice joins stage with Sharpton, mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner: Activist Ada Averyhart, 80, says Mayor Jackson better do something about Cleveland police, and that it will get worse before it gets better, says the mayor needs support and that she still supports him

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From left: Lesley McSpadden , the mother of slain police victim and Ferguson,  Missouri teen Michael Brown, the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Civil Rights icon, MSNBC political host and president of the New York-based National Action Network,  Sabrina Fulton,  the mother of  police victim and  slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, and Samaria Rice, the mother of slain unarmed 12-year-old Cleveland police victim Tamir Rice 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. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice WASHINGTON, D.C.- A day after a Cuyahoga County coroner formally ruled the police killing of her son a homicide, the  

Cleveland news from Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Tel: (216) 659-0473

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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. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) 

Community activists rally at Cleveland City Hall against police killings, call for Mayor Jackson to fire safety director McGraft, Flask, Jackson has a fixation with White men, before recently hiring a Black police chief he had no Blacks as law director, safety director, chief prosecutor, chief of police and ems commissioner with support from Black preachers, the Cleveland NAACP

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Community Activist Dionne Thomas Carmichael holds a protest sign in support of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Black boy gunned down by a White Cleveland cop on Nov 22 at a public park on the city's largely White west side for sporting a toy pellet gun. From left Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, safety  director Michael McGraft and former safety director Martin Flask, now a chief executive assistant to the mayor. Data show that Jackson, who is Black,  protects these White men at any costs, even rehiring them after both retired, and paying them annual salaries in excess of $120,000 a piece. Before recently hiring a Black police chief following calls for diversity in the top brass by community activists,  the Black mayor had no Blacks as law director, safety director, chief prosecutor, chief of police,  and ems commissioner in the predominantly Black major metropolitan city, insensitivity to the Black community supported by Black preachers and an all but defunct Cleveland NAACP

The Call and Post Newspaper calls for Cleveland safety director Michael McGraft to resign, possibly Mayor Jakson due to Cleveland police killings of Blacks and a DOJ report of systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department, read the editorial here

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Call & Post Editorial: McGrath and Flask must go for sure, possibly Jackson (Ohio's leading Black print press. International Boxing Promoter Don King, publisher. Keven Heard, managing editor. George L. Forbes, legal counsel. The Call and Post is distributed weekly and published every Wednesday at stands and in stores in the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati). News Desk | 12/10/2014, 9:10 a.m. 45 37 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 -BELOW IS A RE-PRINT OF A  CALL AND POST NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL THAT IS ALSO ON THE STANDS AND IN STORES THIS WEEK  A fleeting passage of time. Two ticks of a second. Pull out a stop watch. Count “one (1,000) – two (1,000).” Then imagine … BANG! Your child is dead. The b