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Newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first Black female attorney general From top left: U.S. President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11), and Congressman and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina (D-1). From bottom left:   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.kathywraycolemanonlin

Cleveland Cavaliers basketball players from left: Kevin Love, LeBron James, and Kyrie Irving. Photo compliments of Getty Images By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach David Blatt Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio -As the playoffs begin, the Cleveland Cavaliers, with a 53-29 win-loss regular season record, continue to navigate through unexplored territory. The Cavs 113-108 win on April 15 over the Washington Wizards at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, the final game of the regular NBA basketball season, was a sweet finale, even though King LeBron James did not play. This Cavali

New Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney, the county's first Black sheriff Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who, according to public records, stole homes via theft and public corruption for mortgage companies and banks like JPMorgan Chase Bank in fake foreclosure cases without either a plaintiff or a mortgage company, and thus no jurisdiction or authority to even hear the cases. Chase would sit on the sidelines without suing, but would use their attorneys in the fake foreclosure cases for harassment and theft purposes, public records reveal. O'Donnell would  then try to hand the homes to Chase for a fourth of the value with the help of the sheriff's office.  Stalemates were reached thereafter because the sheriff's office would not put the people out of their homes. The victims, data show, were primarily Black women that the judge is accused of stalking for years, in some cases n

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 )  Shahid Buttar, a constitutional  attorney and scholar, community activist, and executive director of the national Bill of Rights Defense Committee  ( www.bordc.org ) A police body camera that resembles a regular camera and is worn on an officer's button or zipper shirt, utility belt or uniform shirt pockets.  Cleveland City Council has purchased 1,200  of this type of body camera for Cleveland police to sport. A type  of police body camera known as a flex camera that resembles 

11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland NAACP Attorney Michael Nelson Sr. speaks to about 30 people during a meeting held Thursday evening , March 19 on Cleveland's largely Black east side relative to a recall effort against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.  To the direct left of Nelson is Norm Edwards, and to his left is Ken Bender. Edwards and Bender lead the Black Contractors Group of greater Cleveland.  WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, issued a press statement on April 14 expressing opposition to efforts by a group of citizens, led by local criminal defense attorney Michael Nelson Sr. and Black contractors Group leaders Ken Bender and Norm Edwards, to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson from office. "The campaign to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackso

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 )  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland community activists groups and area college students will rally tomorrow, Tuesday, April 14 against mass incarceration and police murder beginning at 3 pm where they will gather in downtown Cleveland outside in the back of the  Cleveland Public Main Library at 325 Superior Avenue. The group will then march to Cleveland City Hall, organizers said yesterday. (Call Carol at (216) 932-3474 for more information). The event is part of a national action