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Hillary Clinton to visit Cleveland, Ohio to speak at public voting rally at CWRU on Thursday, August 27, 2015, a day after the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment that gives women the right to vote, President Obama comments....Qualified Black women still lag behind White women as a whole relative to salaries and high paying jobs and otherwise, though they are the fasted growing voting bloc, data show......Black women are more likely to get murdered than any other ethic group....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

- August 26, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will speak in Cleveland on August 27 at a voter registration rally on the campus of Case Western Reserve University President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a press conference on August 26 to mark the 95th anniversary of the day in 1920 that women won the right to vote. 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 six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). CLEVELAND, Ohio- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak in Cleveland, Ohio at 10 am on Thursday, August 27 at th

Congressman Stokes honored yesterday at Cleveland City Hall as he lies in state, funeral services are today, August 25, at 11 am at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Vice President Joe Biden will attend funeral....Among those on program at the City Hall ceremony were Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, former U.S. representatives Mary Rose Oakar and Lacy "Bill" Clay, Sam Miller, Attorney Fred Nance, the Rev E. Theophilus Caviness, and Eleanor Hayes...Congresswoman Kaptur, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, and the Rev Jesse Jackson were among those at the City Hall viewing....This is the third article of a three part series leading up to the funeral of the legendary Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio, by Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper www.clevelandurbannews.com

- August 25, 2015

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 six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Pictured are the late Congressman Louis Stokes (wearing maroon tie) and Vice President Joe Biden, who will attend funeral services for Stokes, at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Tuesday, August 25 at 11 am. Stokes, 90, died on August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, with his wife, Jay, by his bedside. CLEVELAND, Ohio -Led by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and family members, with dignitaries such as former U.S representatives Mary Rose Oakar and Lacy &

Black greater Clevelanders remember Congressman Louis Stokes in one-on-one interviews with Cleveland Urban News.Com, interviewed were retired judge Sara Harper, Ohio Rep. John Barnes Jr., Charles Bibb Sr, Community Activist Art McKoy, and retired judge Una H.R. Keenon, who is the president of the Black Women Political Action Committee and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education....Stokes revived the Veterans Hospital from a second class medical facility says McKoy....Kennon said that Stokes helped other Blacks and women get elected to office....Harper said that Stokes fought all of his political life to protect the right to vote....Stokes was a member of the Old Black Political Guard....This is the second article of a three-part series on the legendary Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, by Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

- August 23, 2015

Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes, the first Black in Congress from Ohio who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before retiring in 1998. The longtime federal lawmaker died on August 18, 2015 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. Pictured are retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge Sara J. Harper, also the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP (wearing eyeglasses), retired East Cleveland Judge Una H.R. Kennon, the chairman of the Black Women Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education (wearing turtle-neck sweater), state Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-12), (wearing purple tie), Community Activist Art McKoy (wearing turban), and Charles E. Bibb Sr., a former East Cleveland councilman and current president of the Carnegie Roundtable of greater Cleveland (wearing grey-striped tie) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Ur

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty denying Blacks, others due process by rushing criminal cases through the courts Common Pleas Judge John Sutula says, McGinty says that slow case dockets deny victims speedy redress and act to manipulate defendants' speedy trial rights....Blacks get harsher sentences by the majority White common pleas judges, a Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found..... Cuyahoga County includes the largely Black city of Cleveland....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

- August 21, 2015

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge John Russo 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 six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula has accused County Prosecutor Tim McGinty of picking up old criminal cases, some of them lingering for more than two decades, and rushing them through the courts, and of simply rushing the cases through in general. And in turn, says Sutula,

Louis Stokes, the first Black congressman from Ohio, dies at 90, public funeral arrangements are announced by the family....Stokes to lie in state at Cleveland City Hall....In Congress Stokes fought for Black people and the poor, among others, and led investigations into the assassinations of JFK and MLK....Stokes was the brother of the late Carl B. Stokes, the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city.....This article is the first of a three-part series on the legendary Louis Stokes by Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

- August 19, 2015

Retired 11th congressional district congressman Louis Stokes, and his wife, Jay Stokes. Louis Stokes died on Tuesday, August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a prominent Cleveland suburb. He was 90-years-old. The former federal lawmaker, who was the first Black to serve in Congress from Ohio, announced publicly in July that he had been diagnosed with brain and lung cancer. 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 six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio - Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, who served in the U.S. House of Representativ

Julian Bond, a charismatic Civil Rights icon and former NAACP chairman, is dead at 75, President Obama lauds Bond as a 'hero,' Bond was also a former Georgia lawmaker and a Morehouse College graduate....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news www.clevelandurbannews.com

- August 17, 2015

Julian Bond 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 ) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Longtime former NAACP chairman and charismatic Civil Rights icon Julian Bond died Saturday night in Fort Walton, Florida after a brief illness. He was 75. President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, lauded Bond, a community activists prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, as a friend to the first family, and a "hero." "Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life," said

Black Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason pleads guilty to felonious assault and domestic violence for beating his wife, there is no such thing as attempted felonious assault under Ohio law....Mason did not get the break that White former Bedford judge Harry Jacob got for pimping women, running a prostitution ring, and manipulating court records....Jacob was spared felony convictions per a bench trial before Common Pleas Judge Brian Corrigan.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman

- August 15, 2015

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge Lance Mason, and his estranged wife Aisha Mason 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 -Lance Mason, the only Black male judge of 34 judges on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas bench, who faced felony and other charges relative to a domestic dispute with his estranged wife in last year in Shaker Heights where he lives, pleaded guilty to one count of domestic violence and one count of felonious assault on Aug 13. He will be sentenced next month. Shaker Height