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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. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). 
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Tamir Rice News: The Cleveland 8 file a direct appeal of Judge Adrine's order not to issue arrest warrants against Cleveland cops involved in the shooting death of Tamir Rice after the state appeals court dismisses their petition seeking the arrest warrants saying that a direct appeal is the proper route.... Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty says that police that kill Blacks should not be pre-charged with felonies at the municipal level like Black people....Some community activists want the state law amended to exclude municipal court judges altogether as to felonies, saying they since they cannot hear felony trials by law and that because in Ohio only a county grand jury can formally bring state felony charges via an indictment, they should not be issuing preliminary felony charges with arrest warrants and high bonds that disproportionately target Blacks.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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The Rev. Dr R.A. Vernon, senior pastor at The Word Church , a mega church in greater Cleveland The Rev Dr. Jawanza Colvin, senior pastor at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland Activist Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland chapter of CAIR-Ohio Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- A   three-judge panel of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals on Friday d
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The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Student Success Act, proposed federal legislation that re-writes No Child Left Behind and eliminates federal monies in public education....Congresswoman Fudge denounces the bill as diverting Title 1 funds and hurting poor and disadvantage students, while House Speaker John Boehner applauds the bill....The bill heads to the Senate for a vote....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH ) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed  the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a Republican pushed bill that eliminates a number of federal programs and replaces some of them with local academic grants,  and  a major piece of proposed education legislation   that annoys House Democrats, including  11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and a ra
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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch opposes request for changes in the consent decree on Cleveland police reforms made by the Cleveland NAACP amid a squabble between branch lawyers against Mayor Jackson and National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks....The disagreement could bring prolonged litigation that Lynch does not want....The controversy comes on the heels of Judge John O'Donnell's racist Brelo verdict, a verdict supported by County Prosecutor Tim McGinty....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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U.S.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Cleveland NAACP Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which is led by Loretta Lynch, the country's first Black female attorney general, has filed a brief in federal district court opposing changes to a consent decree on police reforms in Cleveland requested last week in an amicus brief filed by the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborativ
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Black GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson fares well in polls for the primary election, but his unabashed criticism of President Obama could hurt his chances among Blacks....Democrat Hillary Clinton leads all Republican and Democratic candidates or is in a too-close-to-call match-up, primarily against Republican Jeb Bush....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Contributing Writer John Michael Spinelli

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GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson By John Michael Spinelli, contributing writer. Spinelli is a seasoned  independent writer stationed in Columbus, Ohio who covers people, politics, government matters, and beyond.  Reporter John Michael Spinelli Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news.  Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com In separate polling news, Dr. Ben Carson does not fare as well nationally for next year's  Republican presidential primary  as he does in the state of Iowa , according to a recent CNN poll.(Editor's note: Another national poll on the Republican primary commissioned by the University of Monmouth and announced by Carson's campaign team late last month, has Carson faring in the top three of all declared  GOP candidates. Carson is Black and an ultra-conservativ
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Tamir Rice's mother fires her attorneys, community activists applaud the firing....The family hires Attorney Subodh Chandra to prosecute wrongful death lawsuit, Chandra is a former law director under former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell, and a former Democratic candidate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor....Judge Adrine's refusal to issue arrest warrants against police that shot and killed Tamir even after finding probable cause for criminal charges in response to the citizen affidavit for criminal charges filed by community activists is also at issue....Chandra says that state law requires the arrest warrants, Adrine says the criminal rules require a complaint first and that only a prosecutor can bring criminal complaints in Ohio....Activists continue the plight to bypass prosecutors like Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, whom activists says is is pro-police and anti-Black, for criminal charges against police...By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Samaria Rice (center) speaks at a press conference last year on the murder by Cleveland police of her son, 12-year-old Tamir Rice.  Among others flanking Ms. Rice,  are Florida Attorney Benjamin Crump (left), and Akron Ohio Attorney Walter Madison (right), whom Samaria Rice wants removed from representing her, and the estate in a wrongful death lawsuit pending in the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland. Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ronald Adrine and Attorney Subodh Chandra From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news.  Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Twelve-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice CLEVELAND,  Ohio- The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the Black kid who was gunned down
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Cleveland NAACP demands changes in consent decree between city of Cleveland and DOJ on police reforms, including barring police from policing themselves, bias free policing, and an inspector general that does not report to Police Chief Calvin Williams....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborative for a Safe, Fair and Just Cleveland, and the Cleveland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild held a press conference earlier today to announce the filing today of an amicus brief in federal district court in response to the consent decree on police reforms negotiated with the city of Cleveland and the federal government.  (Editor's note
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