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Black Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson may or may not seek a historic fourth term, a recall effort against him failed, other Black prospective mayoral candidates include Nina Turner, state Rep Bill Patmon, and Councilmen Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed..... The leaders of the failed recall effort targeted a Black mayor but would not even publicly criticize White Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who routinely lobbies county grand juries not to criminally indict White Cleveland police officers that gun down unarmed Black people .... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Pictured clockwise are former state senator Nina Turner, also a former city councilwoman and currently the director of engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party,  Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Jeff Johnson, also a former state senator, Cleveland Ward 2  Councilman Zack Reed, and State Representative Bill Patmon, also a former city councilman who lost a non-partisan runoff race for mayor against three-term Black mayor Frank  Jackson in 2009. 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.kathywraycolemanonlinenews

Republican candidates for president debate in Cleveland on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Ohio Governor John Kasich gets heaviest amount of applause, Trump dominates spotlight....Jeb Bush pushes school vouchers and vows to destroy teachers unions....Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that he "heard nothing from the candidates that Ohio families care about like jobs, increasing wages, and better communities and better schools".... The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network rallies outside of the debate for Immigrants and against Trump and the Republican policies on immigration reform........By Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Top row from left:  Former governor Jeb Bush of Florida,  Dr. Ben Carson,  New Jersey  Gov Chis Christie, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and former governor  Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. Bottom  row from left: Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott. Walker The Rev Dr.  Martin Luther King  Jr. celebrates after then president Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.  Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper Community activist and Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network President Don Bryant By Field Reporter Johnette Jerigan and Editor 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 . Jernigan has been a staff reporter for Cleveland Urban News.Com since 2012.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper, ODP and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party to host Republican presidential primary debate watch party in Cleveland the night of the debate in Cleveland on August 6, 2015....Ohio Governor John Kasich makes cut to debate....Pepper tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that grassroots activists from across the state and Democratic officials will also attend the watch party, and that Blacks are his party's most loyal Democrats.... Former Ohio Senator Nina Turner is now the director of political engagement for the ODP....Stuart Garson is chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party....Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is also a Democrat and the city will also host the Republican National Convention next year....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper (far right), ODP Vice Chairwoman Rhine McLin (third from right), who is also a former Dayton, Ohio mayor,  ODP Political Engagement Chairwoman Nina Turner (second from left), who is also a former state senator,  Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Young Black Democrats President Billy Sharp (second from right), and other organizers of a political forum held earlier this year at the Cleveland Heights Community Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.  Cleveland Heights is a   largely  White middle class suburb of Cleveland. 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 Ohio Democrat

Democratic Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge blasts the 10 Republican presidential candidates slated to debate in Cleveland on August 6, 2015, says that all are bad for America, and all of them want to cut education, medicaid, medicare, social security, and taxes for the rich...By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Cleveland area Democrat Top row from left:  Former governor Jeb Bush of Florida,  Dr. Ben Carson,  New Jersey  Gov Chis Christie, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and former governor  Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. Bottom  row from left: Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott. Walker   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) 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 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio 11th Congressional Distr