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Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield is an announcer at the 2019 Kentucky Derby won by Country House after race horse Maximum Security is disqualified.....Long-shot Country House had 65-1 odds and the $1 superfecta paid out some $50,000.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky on May 4, 2019. Photo complements of Getty Images Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield talks to a reporter at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 4 at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky, Mayfield a Heisman Trophy winner, invited to the Derby as an official announcer   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and 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 LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Clev

League of Women Voters of Ohio, ACLU win lawsuit as federal court throws out Ohio's congressional map after deeming it unconstitutional...."Today's victory ensures that voters' voices will be restored," said Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio.... The ruling against gerrymandering requires that the Republican controlled Ohio state legislature redraw its current congressional map as to voting relative to Ohio's 12 congressional seats, only four of them held by Democrats, namely U.S. Representatives Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, whose districts include Cleveland, and Joyce Beatty and Tim Ryan, a presidential candidate .....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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League of Women Voters of Ohio Executive Director Jen Miller By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio -A three- judge panel on Friday ruled Ohio's current congressional map unconstitutional and ordered the state legislature to redraw it by the 2020 election, a win for Democrats who say the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly favors Republican candidates for congress and the state's controversial congressional map is evidence of such partisan posture. The decision on Ohio's electoral map by the judicial panel of the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, which follows a series of similar rulings in other states across the country, in

Black female mayor of Baltimore resigns amid scandal...."Baltimore deserves a mayor who can move our great city forward," former mayor Catherine Pugh said in a statement

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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh After weeks of growing pleas for her to step down, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has resigned,  her attorney said Thursday . "I am sorry for the harm that I have caused to the image of the city of Baltimore and the credibility of the office of the mayor," she said in a letter read by her lawyer Steve Silverman. "Baltimore deserves a mayor who can move our great city forward," the statement continued. Pugh, who has been suffering from health issues, did not appear at the news conference with her attorney. In recent weeks, federal agents raided her two homes, her City Hall office and other locations. She has been on an indefinite paid leave of absence from her job as Baltimore's top elected official since April 1, citing health reasons. CLICK HERE TO GO TO READ THE FULL STORY AT NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC.COM Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspape

Ohio Supreme Court orders Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo off the Cleveland firefighters work starting time dispute case, saying SERB, and not the judge, has the authority or jurisdiction to initially hear the issue on whether the city can independently change the work starting time of firefighters without union input....Judge Russo is also ordered to vacate a temporary restraining order that prevented the city from implementing the work-time reporting change from 8:30 am to 7 am, and was ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court to vacate all prior orders and to exercise no further jurisdiction or authority over the case....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.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 LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a legal journalist and an investigative reporter Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo to cease exercising jurisdiction or authority over a dispute between the Association of Cl