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Remembering the late former congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones on her September 10 birthday, read the last major interview by Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman with Tubbs -Jones on her views of sexism in presidential races, including against Hillary Clinton in 2008, that was published in the Call and Post Newspaper....Tubbs-Jones tells Coleman in the 2008 one-on-one-interview shortly before her death that sometimes sexism in America is stronger than racism....Coleman now edits Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper

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    The late U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones (far left), a Cleveland Democrat, then U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who is now the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, and former Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, now a U.S. senatorial candidate. The trio rallies supporters at a campaign event in Ohio during Clinton's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 (Read below, and after a brief synopsis, the one-on-one interview by Reporter Kathy Wray Coleman with the late former congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones that was published in the Call and Post Newspaper on Sept 24, 2008 and  was taken shortly before the former federal lawmaker's death on Aug. 20, 2008. It was Tubbs- Jones' last major interview and it addresses her views on sexism against women in politics, and otherwise.  Tubbs -Jones served as the 2008 co-chair of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful  bid for presi

Community remembers former congressman Louis Stokes at annual 11th congressional district caucus Labor Day parade with Congresswoman Fudge serving as Grand Marshal....Dignitaries there include Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Warrensville Heights Mayor Brad Sellers, Cleveland Councilmen Zack Reed and Jeff Johnson, state Representatives John Barnes Jr. and Bill Patmon (D-10), Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, Cleveland Municipal Court Judges Pauline Tarver, Ed Wade and Emanuella Groves, Common Pleas Judges Daniel Gaul and Joan Synenberg, former congresswoman Betty Sutton of Barberton, and former Ohio governor and current senatorial candidate Ted Strickland....Councilman Zack Reed honors Stokes, Ohio'd first Black congressperson, and his late brother Carl Stokes, the first Black mayor of a major American city....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Pictured are the late former congressman Louis Stokes (wearing eyeglasses and Black suit), current 11th congressional district Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, the late Carl B. Stokes, Louis Stokes' brother and the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city  (wearing Black suit and no eyeglass), and Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed (wearing eyeglasses and dark grey suit).   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 - Former longtime congressman Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressperson

Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks in Cleveland, Ohio against police killings of unarmed Black people, he condemns the Tamir Rice police shooting, and Judge John O'Donnell's acquittal of police officer Michael Brelo....Farrakhan calls Mayor Jackson a beautiful mayor whose hands are tied by a racist legal system that condones police killings of Black people....He says that the whole system needs to be taken down, and calls for a national boycott of Black Sunday and the Christmas season....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor -in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,  national leader of the Nation of Islam, who spoke to an overflow audience in  Cleveland, Ohio on September  3  and condemned  the arbitrary killings  by Cleveland  police of unarmed Black people  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 police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland police fatal 12-year-old shooting victim Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (picture

Minister Louis Farrakhan to speak in Cleveland, Ohio at free, public event on Thursday, September 3, 2015, a gathering that comes on the heels of controversial Cleveland police killings of Black people and a consent decree on police reforms between the city and the DOJ.... Farrakhan will also lead the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on October 10 in Washington D.C.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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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 six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who    is the leader of the political and religious organization called the  Nation of Islam , and is  famous internationally for organizing the  Million Man March  in  Washington DC  in  1995   will speak in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, Sept. 3 at a free and open-to-the public event at  7 pm at Second Ebenezer Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side at 1881 East  71st Street.  Doors open at 6 pm. Call (216) 772-7969 for mor

Hillary Clinton campaigns in Cleveland, Ohio, Congressman Fudge, former governor and U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Strickland, and Nina Turner also speak at event at CWRU....Clinton links the views and policies on women of the Republican Party and the GOP presidential candidates to terrorists, talks on poverty, voter suppression, abortion rights, and tougher gun control laws in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two television journalists in Virginia.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hillary Clinton (pictured) spoke to several hundred supporters Thursday morning, August 27, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, her first official campaign stop to the majority Black major American city and the pivotal state of Ohio since she announced her candidacy for president in April.  Afterwards she spearheaded a campaign meeting centered around voter registration, and later that day attended a $2,700 a person  fundraiser at the  Cleveland  home of a local supporter.  Her visit to the controversial Black city that will host the National Republican Convention in 2016 was timely, and comes a day after the 95th anniversary, specifically on August 26, of the

Former Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes is laid to rest, Vice President Joe Biden and Congresspersons Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel attend, Rev Moss delivers the eulogy and Congresswoman Fudge gets a standing ovation as the keynote speaker....Other greater Cleveland Black elected officials there include Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland council members, and state representatives.... Former Cleveland mayors Dennis Kucinich, Michael White and Jane Campbell also attend....White, State Rep Barnes, Marsha Mockabee, Dr Toby Cosgrove, Lillian Sharpley and Juanita Hewlett comment at funeral to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's Black digital news leader...Community activists, led by Art McKoy, stand ground at the funeral with red, black and green colored flags to salute Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Greater Cleveland community activists stood ground at the funeral of former Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes as a salute to the longtime federal lawmaker and Ohio's first Black congressperson The flag-draped casket of the legendary Louis Stokes,  a World War II veteran and   the first Black in Congress from Ohio,  who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1968 to 1998. The longtime federal lawmaker died on  August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio after a brave battle with brain and lung cancer. Congressman Louis Stokes By Cleveland Urban News. Com Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman. Cleveland Urban News.Com and its affiliated blog, the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, are  Ohio's most read Black newspaper and Black newspaper blog Blog. Coleman is a 22-year journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio  covering various topics,  including racial  di