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Nina Turner to introduce Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at campaign rally in Cleveland at the CSU Wolstein Center at 7 pm on November 16, doors open at 6 pm....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 ).  Nina Turner CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio –On the heels of the second Democratic presidential debate, which was held in Iowa on Saturday night, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will join supporters, including former Ohio senator Nina Turner,  who will introduce him at a campaign rally at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University on Monday, Nov. 16. Doors open at 6 p.m, and the program starts at 7 p.m.  (The address of the CSU Wolstein Center is 2000 Prosp

Former Ohio senator Nina Turner switches from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders, says she will interview one-on-one next week with Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's Black digital news leader, to give more specifics.... Is Clinton taking Ohio and Black leaders for granted in her race for president? ....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman.

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Nina Turner 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 ).  Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former state senator Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat who was until this week the director of political engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party, announced Thursday that she is switching her support of Hillary Clinton to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist Democrat and Clinton's most threatening rival for the Democratic nomination for president. A former first lady and prior secretary of sta

Justice for Tamir Rice Press Conference of November 12 by Black, other clergy against allegedly racist Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty: Article: Cleveland area clergy, led by the Rev Dr. Jawanza Colvin, to hold press conference on November 12 at 11 am at Olivet Church to call for White Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to step aside in the Tamir Rice Cleveland police killing case before the county grand jury for possible criminal charges against police, allegedly for bias, racial intimidation, and harassment of Tamir Rice's grieving Black mother.... Three Cuyahoga County council members join the Cleveland NAACP in calling for grand jury indictments on criminal charges of police and Cleveland Judge Ron Adrine found probable cause for criminal charges that McGinty ignored saying that cops that kill Black people, mainly White ones, cannot be assessed by municipal judges for preliminary felony criminal charges prior to the convening of a grand jury, which is against state law if a criminal complaint is filed by a city prosecutor.... But others, says McGinty, most of them Black, can be be assessed for preliminary felony charges at the municipal level, many of whom are subjected to arrest warrants, and high bonds without even a complete investigation and before a grand jury convenes...This is routinely done by some allegedly corrupt White judges like allegedly racist Shaker Heights Judge K.J. Montgomery, a McGinty ally and alleged drunk who is accused of targeting Blacks and community activists from the bench for the White establishment, police and others, including McGinty....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Pictured is Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice during a press conference last month as she and her attorneys called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty  to step aside after he  hired handpicked experts allegedly to exonerate police from a grand jury indictment on criminal charges.  McGinty who is White, pro-police and a former common pleas judge, last week saw fit to publicly attack this grieving Black mother, angering both Blacks and Whites and community activists that want to see justice in the case. A county grand jury is currently hearing the  matter for possible criminal charges against the two White Cleveland cops involved in the deadly shooting. The Rev Dr. Jawanza Colvin, senior pastor at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio 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

President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, and both call for peace in the Middle East, a meeting that comes nearly two months after the Iran Nuclear Deal....Obama said that he wants children safe in the midst of the war between Israel and Palestine.... 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 URBAN NEWS.COM ARTICLE-WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured) met at the White House on Monday, the first time the powerful pair has talked face-to-face in nearly a year, and on the heels of the controversial Iran Nuclear Deal that Congress approved in September that Netanyahu vehemently opposes.  Both Obama and Netanyahu pushed for  peace in the Middle East during the meeting in the White House Oval Office as prospects

The Cleveland Cavaliers are 5 in 1 this 2015-2016 NBA season thus far, winning five in a row since losing to the Bulls in game one, and beating the 76ers in game 6 this season, 108-102....Game 7 of the regular season for LeBron James and the Cavaliers is Sunday, November 8 at 3:30 pm against the Indiana Pacers....Sharing the ball more this season has made a difference, and the sky is the limit....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough (www.clevelandurbannews.com) and (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

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Cleveland Cavaliers power forward LeBron James (The King) Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough 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 URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio -Prior to the Cleveland Cavaliers opening their regular NBA season against the Chicago Bulls on Oct 27, an away game that they lost  by two points, it was thought that they would struggle early. They would later win five straight games, the last one on Nov 6, and against the Philadelphia 76ers, who also lost to the Cavaliers earlier this month, Cleveland's fourth regular season game. The initial apathy is not surprising. After all, key players like LeBron James, w

Ohio voters reject marijuana legalization Issue 3 but statewide Issue 1, a redistricting process for state legislative districts, passes.... Blacks are winners and losers with Cleveland Judge Pauline Tarver losing to colleague Judge Ed Wade, and Cleveland Judge James Hewitt losing to the Sweeney name.... Annette Blackwell wins by a landslide for mayor in Maple Heights and is its first Black mayor, and Ruth Gray loses for mayor in South Euclid, Ohio....Deborah Turner loses for judge in Bedford, and Bedford Heights Mayor Fletcher Berger is reelected....Una Kennon and Dr. Mary Rice win East Cleveland Board of Education seats and Barbara Thomas and Joie Graham win for East Cleveland City Council..... Warrensville Heights Mayor Brad Sellers, a former NBA basketball player and political protege of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, runs unopposed....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ed Wade, who ousted Cleveland Judge Pauline Tarver in a close race Tuesday night Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pauline Tarver , a former executive director of the Cleveland NAACP who has said that she was a target of the establishment for standing up against the purported mistreatment of select Black judges on the largely Black 13-member Cleveland Municipal Court.  Annette Blackwell, who won over councilman Bill Brownlee by a  landslide Tuesday night for mayor of Maple Heights,  a Cleveland suburb that is 68 percent Black. Blackwell is the city's first Black mayor. 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, including Co

Imperial Avenue Murders: Racist Cleveland Fox8 News television station covers Imperial Women Coalition's 6th anniversary rally of the Imperial Avenue Murders and said in news coverage later that day of October 29, 2015 that the three Democratic Black elected officials slated to speak along with others should not have been included, though the White news station supports White local elected officials that speak out for White women victimized by violence, including the Ariel Castro victims.... The Imperial Women Coalition, which Fox8 News credits for organizing the rally, disagrees as to the harassment of Black elected officials, and calls the gesture racist and politically motivated.... Activists say that White people in general want to silence Blacks that stand up against their ongoing oppression of Black women, and the Black community.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell, who strangled 11 Black women to death at his since demolished home in Cleveland, Ohio  on the  majority Black city's  largely Black east side,  and raped three other  Black women. His  convictions and death sentence  are  on appeal  before the Ohio Supreme Court By 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 .    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Cleveland Fox8 News, a Republican sponsored local television station with a national affiliate that is often called racist and politically biased by most Democratic Black elected officials and Black people in general, criticized community activists of the Imperial Women Coalition that sponsored the 6th Anniversary rally of the Impe