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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.  Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a community activist, legal and political reporter, and a 22-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who later became a New York U.S. senator, and was secretary of state in the Obama administration during the president's first term, announced by Internet video at 3 pm today, April 12, that she will make a second bid for president in 2016. "I'm running for president," said Clinton,  a two-minute video  reveals. "Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion." (Editor's no

Tamir Rice Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty 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.  Coleman, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose majority Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland, is the honorary chair of a Tamir Rice petition, a petition signed also by some Cleveland city council members, members of Cuyahoga County Council,  two state senators, other elected officials, community activists, and members of the faith-based and lab

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. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists groups, led by the local chapter of    the national Puncture the Silence-Stop Mass Incarceration Network, invite the public to join an uncle of Tamir Rice, a Ferguson Missouri activist, and others to give testimony on police brutality before a panel from 12-4 pm on Saturday, April 11 at the Cleveland State University Main Classroom Building (room 201) in downtown Cleveland at 2121 Euclid Avenue. (Interested media and others wanting additional information should

11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio 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. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Warrensville Heights, Ohio  – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland,  announced on Thursday, April 2, that, per her support, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded a $3 million grant to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) to implement a Jobs-Plus Pilot Program. Cuyahoga County is the largest of 88 counties of Ohio and includes Cleveland, a major metropolitan city. CMHA is an arm of the HUD, a federally funded public entity that owns and manages property, and

From top left Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11), Congressman and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina (D-1),   NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund P resident and Director-counsel  Sherrilyn Ifill,  National Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. President Dr. Paulette Walker, and  GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (R-KY). 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.  Coleman, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Rep Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)  Chairman  G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina, National De

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton 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.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton spoke one-on-one with Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black  digital news, after a recall effort that sought to boot him from office fail short of necessary  signatures for a ballot initiative. The recall attempt  comes   as the thirty-something mayor  will host a meeting tonight, April 2, on a possible merger with neighboring Cleveland, also a largely Black impoverished city, though, unlike East Cleveland, Cleveland is a major American city.   (Editor's note: Mayor Norton will host the 6:30 pm public meeting of today, April 2, at the McGregor Nursing Home

The Kentucky Wildcats edged the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, March 28 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio to advance to the Final Four for the fourth time in five seasons.  From the metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Con, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) The   Kentucky Wildcats stayed undefeated Saturday, edging third-seeded Notre Dame 68-66 in the Midwest region final at the  Quicken  Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio  to advance to the final four four the fourth time in five seasons.   And  the Michigan State Spartans capped an improbable run to the Final Four with an overtime win Sunday against the  Louisville  Cardinals in the Elite Eight tournament.  Kentucky will face the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday, April 4, and Michigan will square off, also on Saturday, again