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African-American Museum of Cleveland to host capital improvement fundraiser moderated by 19 Action News Anchorman Harry Boomer on April 15, 2016....Supporters of the event include community activists, Cleveland councilmen Conwell, Dow, Polensek and Jeff Johnson, Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell, and former Ohio senator Shirley Smith...The event is from 5 pm to 8 pm and is not at the museum but at 1575 East 108th Street in Cleveland at the University Circle Bed and Breakfast....Donations will be accepted at the door also.....Call museum executive director Frances Caldwell at 216-374-2899 for more information.....The program, for purposes of media attendance, will begin at 5:45 pm....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Executive Director Frances Caldwell stands in front of the temporarily closed African-American Museum of Cleveland in the Huff area on the city's largely Black east side. A capital improvement fundraiser is scheduled for Friday, April 15 from 5 pm -8 pm at the University Circle Bed and Breakfast in Cleveland to raise monies for insurance for a $150,000 grant allocated in the state budget for much needed repairs to the historical building, a Cleveland landmark www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, We have more than three million projected Internet viewers via Google Plus, Facebook, our website and blog, Twitter, and elsewhere. Thanks for reading us. Cleveland 19 Action News anchorman and reporter Harry Boomer By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- The African-American Museum of Cleveland will host a ca
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Obama Supreme Court nominee news: White House officials hold press call with reporters and legal advocates to discuss letter to Senate leaders signed by 15 former presidents of the American Bar Association for a fair Senate hearing and timely vote for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.... President Obama calls for fair play from Senate Republicans for Judge Garland, currently the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.... By www.clevelandurbannews.com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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President Barack Obama (left) and his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland,   chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (White House photo) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS Kathy Wray Coleman is also a legal reporter and an investigative journalist, and is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ RE
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs Grammy-winning nominees Janet Jackson and Chaka Khan, and no women are among the 2016 inductions....N.W.A., founded by Ice Cube and Easy-E, is the only Black group inducted and performed at the ceremony that airs on HBO on April 30....Blacks represented a third of the 15 nominees categorized by either groups or individuals....By www.clevelandurbannews.com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Grammy winning Black R&B artists Janet Jackson (left) and Chaka Khan were among 15 nominees, either by consideration as a group or individual, slated for possible induction in 2016 to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a landmark music history museum located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. But they were snubbed  as were Black artists in general, and women were snubbed entirely. A third of the 15 nominees were Black and also include the Spinners, Chic, and N.W.A. , the only Black group to win induction this year along with Whites of Steve Miller, Deep Purple, Cheap Trick, and Chicago N.W.A.,  an abbreviation of  Niggaz Wit Attitudes,  was an American  hip hop  gangsta rap group out of  Compton, California  that had its heyday during the mid 80s and early 90s The band  'Chicago,' a rock band founded in 1957 that also has a Black following Deep Purple, a popular heavy metal and modern hard rock band founded in Hereford, England in 1968
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Ohio Governor John Kasich, also a presidential candidate, delivers his 2016 State of the State address, gives courage award to Black Clevelander Margo Hudson....By www.clevelandurbannews.com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Ohio Governor John Kasich, also a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, presents Clevelander Margo Hudson with a courage award during his 2016 State of the State adress on Wednesday, April 6 in Marrietta, Ohio www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS Kathy Wray Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS  alone CLE
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