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Bernie Sanders' campaign co-chair Nina Turner says Trump's attacks on 4 Democratic congresswomen of color are racist and are attacks on all women of color...."If the president comes for them, he comes for me," said Turner, a Cleveland native and former Ohio senator who added that President Trump will do "absolutely anything, even if it is to stroke the flames of racism and bigotry and sexism"....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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Democratic U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,  Rashida Tlaib, and   Ayanna Pressley,  and former Ohio senator Nina Turner of Cleveland, also a Democrat and the national campaign  co-chair for the Bernie Sanders campaign  for president in 2020  U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for t

All Black East Cleveland jury finds Cleveland police supervisor Patricia Coleman not guilty in '137 shots' dereliction of duty case where two unarmed Blacks were gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops shooting 137 bullets following a police chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland....Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who organized rallies around the '137 shots' shooting with activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., said the acquittal is "unfortunate for the Black community and our fight against excessive force and police negligence and malfeasance and if innocent Blacks had representative counsel and fair judges and prosecutors when we are maliciously prosecuted our people might not get erroneously convicted and illegally imprisoned so frequently and so easily by our racist legal system"....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Pictured above is Cleveland Police Sgt. Patricia Coleman , who was acquitted by an all Black East Cleveland jury on Friday of a second degree misdemeanor charge of dereliction of duty, Coleman, singled out among a host of police supervisors and high ranking law enforcement personnel of Cleveland and prosecuted in a celebrated case where 13 non- Black Cleveland cops gunned down two unarmed Blacks following a police chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland. All of the 13 shooter cops were men, and they went free too, including since fired cop Michael Brelo, the only cop charged of the 13 shooters and of whom was acquitted of voluntary  manslaughter charges in a bench trial before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell. Hence, the Black community is left without accountability in one of the most notorious cases of excessive force by Cleveland police Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition speaks to the mai

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies, Stevens a Republican who championed affirmative action, abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state in public and higher education, among other public policy matters....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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Former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens 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 .   As to the Obama interview   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the second oldest and longest serving  justice  in the court's history when he retired in 2010 at 90-years-old, died Tuesday at a hospital in  Fort Lauderdale,  Florida  of complications from a stroke. He was 99 and at his death he was the third longest serving U.S. Supreme Court justice in the court's history. Initially consid

Activists to protest as Cleveland police supervisors go on trial in East Cleveland as to the fatal chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland, the two supervisors facing dereliction of duty charges with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams subpoenaed to testify...."We invite people to the sleepover in front of the East Cleveland courthouse and to the trial in East Cleveland," said activist Art McKoy....Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who organized rallies around the shooting with McKoy, called the tragic killings by Cleveland police "execution-style and senseless and irresponsible".... Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both of them unarmed, were both gunned down following the chase that culminated in 13 non-Black Cleveland cops shooting 137 bullets into the car driven by Russell, 43, with Williams, 30, as a passenger....All 13 of the shooter cops went free and the 2 Cleveland police supervisors face dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the chase....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition speaks to the mainstream media at a rally for justice for unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, that she organized with activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., both Russell and Williams gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets following a high speed chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland, all of the 13 shooting cops going free as two police supervisors face trial in East Cleveland Municipal Court on July 15, 2019 on misdemeanor dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the deadly chase. To Coleman's direct right are the mother of Williams (wearing red hat) and her mother's sister, who has since died. Coleman says she has been harassed by cops, and judges, among others, for organizing rallies around the killings of Williams and Russell by Cleveland police and called them "execution-style and senseless and i