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Toronto Raptors upset the Golden State Warriors to win the 2019 NBA Championship title, a title the Warriors denied to the Cleveland Cavaliers as to last year's finals, Cavs megastar LeBron James then leaving Cleveland for a mega millions contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.... 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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Holding the NBA Championship award  Thursday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California , Kawhi Leonard was named MVP for the 2019 NBA playoffs, the Toronto  Raptors winning Game 6 of the finals and  taking the series 4-2 over the  Golden State Warriors, the sixth-time NBA champions who denied Cleveland its second championship title last year (Photo by Getty Images) 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 editor Kathy Wray Coleman C

Former Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason to be named chief of staff to embattled county executive Armond Budish, Mason currently a partner with the law firm of Bricker and Eckler, which is under fire for stealing homes from county residents along with common pleas judges, JPMorgan Chase Bank attorneys, and the office of the county sheriff via illegal foreclosure activity....Mason is not a favorite of Black leaders....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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Bill Mason 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, investigative reporter, editor-in-chief Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com -  Embattled Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish has selected former county prosecutor Bill Mason, a partner in the the Cleveland  district office of the law firm of Bricker and Eckler,  as his new chief of  staff. An announcement on Mason's new j

Cuyahoga County Council to consider asking voters to restore the sheriff to an elected and not appointed position after Black Sheriff Clifford Pinkney resigns following 9 recent county jail deaths, Black leaders, led by U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, of whom support the measure, Fudge and then Cleveland NAACP president George Forbes of whom fought against change to the current county governance structure that replaced 3 county commissioners and the county elected offices, all but the still-elected judges and county prosecutor, with a 11-member county council and county executive....The formerly elected positions of county sheriff, auditor, clerk of courts, fiscal officer and treasurer are currently appointed positions made by the county executive...Former Ohio senator Nina Turner, now a co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, was one of few Black leaders who supported the current county governance structure.... Kathy Wray Coleman, editor of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney, the county's first Black sheriff who announced May 25 that he will resign, effective Aug 2., former Cleveland NAACP president  George Forbes, also a former Cleveland City Council president, Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, and former Ohio senator Nina Turner, now co-chair of U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign for  president Community activists, former jail inmates and other community members protest at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland against conditions in the Cuyahoga County Jail and the deaths of nine inmates in roughly a year on May 23, 2019 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 th

Cleveland police union ignores petitions delivered by Tamir Rice's mother for it to cease efforts to get the White Cleveland cop's job back that shot and killed Tamir, state law of which only allows the union and not the individual union member standing to seek to overturn an arbitrator's adverse decision of a firing, or an arbitrator's ruling in general.... Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down in under two seconds....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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Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police gunned down in 2014, speaks at a press conference on Monday, June 3, 2019 after delivering petitions with more than 170,000 signatures to Cleveland police union headquarters that demand that the union cease efforts to overturn an arbitration decision that upheld the city's firing of the White cop that shot and killed the Black child in under two seconds.  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 LE