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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wins primary election with ease to face Councilman Zack Reed in November, with Councilman Jeff Johnson finishing third and out of the contest, and as East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King overcomes Una Keenon to win East Cleveland's primary election, all of the sitting Cleveland councilpersons of whom are among the top two candidates for the November general election....Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt will face former councilman Joe Jones, who came in first in the primary, Ward 7 Councilman TJ Dow will face Basheer Jones, Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston will face Eugene Miller, and Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins is in a heated race with Jasmin Santana, who finished first in the primary above Cummins....Only 13 percent of registered voters in Cuyahoga County voted in Tuesday's September 12 primary election....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Incumbent Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left) and Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, who will square off in the Nov 7, 2017 general election for mayor of the largely Black major American city, Jackson finishing first in Tuesday's Sept 12 non-partisan primary election, and Reed following in second place and among eight candidates opposing the three-term Mayor Jackson for re-election East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King, who won Tuesday's Democratic primary election for East Cleveland mayor against four challengers, including closet challenger Una Keenon, a retired city judge and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education. King faces Green Party candidate and activist Devin Branch for the Nov. 7 general election. East Cleveland is a largely Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, a largely Black major American city ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on
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Cleveland Indians break record with 21-straight-wins

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CLEVELAND — The Streak, now 21 games old and growing, is a living, breathing thing, making history, claiming new victims, sucking in all the oxygen in baseball. By now, it very likely has its own Twitter feed. It is gazed upon with astonishment from all corners of the country and celebrated in all corners of Cleveland, save for a roughly 60-foot-by-60-foot square of lush, carpeted, cherrywood-paneled room in the bowels of Progressive Field where the Cleveland Indians make their home for 81 games each year.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT WASHINGTON POST.COM
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Activists to picket Cleveland judge Charles Patton for denying poor Blacks charged with resisting arrest of Cleveland police indigent counsel and retaliating with illegal capius warrants and $15,000 bonds after the speedy trial time has expired and they complain to the Ohio Supreme Court per the filing of an affidavit of prejudice that seeks his removal as judge in the cases.....Activist and Black on Black Crime Inc. President Alfred Porter Jr. says Judge Patton's behavior is egregious.....A Clevelandurbannews.com investigation also reveals that Judge Patton and the clerk's office have falsified case dockets involving the Black defendants to cover up the harassment by the judge, harassment that includes illegal orders to appear before him while complaints or affidavits of prejudice are pending before Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, which is precluded under state law and could result in Patton's suspension from the bench....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Charles Patton xc: Cleveland FBI via email ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - Blacks accused of crimes by White Cleveland cops and the city of Cleveland, such as a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest, are being denied indigent counsel in the courtroom of Cleveland Municipal Cou
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Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur endorses former congresswoman Betty Sutton for Ohio governor as Jerry Springer rallies with unions in Cleveland for a $15 -an-hour minimum wage and considers a run for Ohio governor....Kaptur, Sutton and Springer are Democrats.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Former U.S. representative Betty Sutton, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose congressional district extends to Cleveland and the longest serving woman in congress ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio - U
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Congresswoman Fudge to lead annual 11th Congressional District Caucus Labor Day parade and festival in Cleveland on September 4, 2017 where the late former congresspersons Louis Stokes and Stephanie Tubbs Jones will be remembered, Stokes the first Black congressperson from Ohio and Tubbs Jones the first Black female congressperson from Ohio....State Representative and mayoral candidate Bill Patmon comments on the annual Labor Day event initiated by Louis Stokes 46-years ago to Clevelandurbannews.com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman.....Fudge is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio along with Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Columbus......... The late congressman Stokes was a Civil Rights attorney and the brother and only sibling of the late Carl B. Stokes, a former judge, New York anchorman, and the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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The late former congressman Louis Stokes (left), the first Black congressperson from Ohio, and his late brother Carl B. Stokes, the first Black mayor of the largely black city of Cleveland and of a major American city Pictured are Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (wearing blue-green suit jacket) as well as the late former congresspersons of the 11th congressional district, Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first Black female congressperson from Ohio. Both Stokes and Tubbs Jones will be remembered at the 11th Congressional District Caucus 46th Annual Labor Day Parade and Festival on Monday, Sept 4, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio, an event that Fudge, a Warrenville Heights Democrat and one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio, will lead ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone
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