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Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman talks face-to-face with Tavis Smiley during his visit to Cleveland for a radio and television broadcast with area judges on the heroin crisis. and the legal system in general...Smiley also comments to Coleman on LeBron James and the Kardashians at the G-Lancer 21 restaurant in Cleveland....Smiley has called Trump's election as president the "GOP's seal of racism, sexism and classicism"....Smiley and Dr Cornel West have also called President Obama to task and have demanded more aggression on his part for the Black community....Some agree while others say Obama speaks through his pro-Black policies and that his actions are limited in a still vividly racist America where congressional Republicans control both the House and the Senate....Read here when Smiley's broadcast on the heroin crisis will run this week on WCPN 90.3 FM radio and on television per WVIZ/PBS's '"The Tavis Smiley Show"

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WVIZ /PBS nationally syndicated talk show host and Civil Rights activist Tavis Smiley and Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, Dec 7, 2016 at G-Lancer 21. Coleman was on a date and ran into Smiley at the restaurant and he advised that he was in Cleveland to do a taping on the opiate and heroin crisis in Cuyahoga County, which includes the majority Black major American city of Cleveland.  G-Lancer 21, a restaurant at East 21st Street and Superior Avenue in Cleveland on the city's largely Black east side of town, a take off from the now defunct historic Lancer's restaurant that was known internationally  Dr Cornel West ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the

Recalled and former East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton's City Hall office vandalized a day before the recall election....Those that pushed Norton and former city council president Thomas Wheeler's recall ouster include Councilman Nate Martin, East Cleveland Board of Education President Una HR Keenon, residents and activists Richard Fambro, Gerald Strothers, Ernie Smith and Devin Branch, and Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor the Rev Dr. David L. Hunter, all of whom, like Councilwoman Thomas, are against a proposed merger with neighboring Cleveland.....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Former East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton, whom voters, on Tuesday, recalled along with city council president Thomas Wheeler ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.4 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio  -According to East Cleveland Police Chief Michael Cardilli and public records, a vandal s

President Obama comments on the passing of former astronaut John Glenn, also a former U.S. senator from Ohio.....Dead at 95, Glen was the first American to orbit the earth and was succeeded in Congress by the late George Voinovich, a former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.... Glen received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2012....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com

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President Barack Obama bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom on former astronaut  John Glenn, also a former U.S. senator from Ohio, at a ceremony at the White House in May of 2012 By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.4 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, WASHINGTON, D.C.- Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth and a former Democratic U.S. senator from Ohio, died on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, a city some 120 miles south of Cleveland.   Funeral arrangements are pending. 

East Cleveland voters recall Mayor Gary Norton, city council president in response to their efforts to merge the Black city with Cleveland....East Cleveland Councilwoman Barbara Thomas tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that precluding a merger with Cleveland is the next step, says a merger is not a good fix....Norton and Wheeler were up against retired East Cleveland judge Una Kennon, now president of the East Cleveland Board of Education and also president of the Black Women's PAC, and others....The recall was close with absentee votes still coming in that could change the outcome....The chocolate city of East Cleveland remains intact for now....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.3 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -  East Cleveland voters  on Tuesday recalled two-term Black Mayor Gary A. Norton Jr. and the mayor's ally, city council president Thomas Wheeler, in a special election spu

East Cleveland voters to decide recall election of Mayor Gary Norton, city council president Thomas Wheeler on December 6, 2016....Former county commissioner Peter Lawson Jones and former state representative candidate Cassandra McDonald (pictured) spar over the recall issue with Jones against the recall and McDonald and some community activists wanting Norton gone...Polls open at 6:30 am and close at 7:30 pm.....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.3 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -  East Cleveland voters will decide Tuesday, Dec 6, 2016 whether to recall two-term Black Mayor Gary A. Norton Jr. and the mayor's ally, city council president Thomas Wheeler.