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Cleveland activists to picket August 15 over 9 inmate deaths in county jail, malicious prosecutions, excessive sentences against Blacks, inhumane jail conditions, corrupt judges and prosecutors, excessive force, bail reform, speedy trial violations, grand jury tampering, indictment fixing, and other malfeasance, U.S. Marshals issuing findings of unconstitutional and inhumane Cuyahoga County Jail conditions......Activists also want justice for Shelia McFarland, who is Black and serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole aftet calling Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul a racist.....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com -CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland  community members and local community activists, led by Alfref Porter Jr of Black on Black Crime Inc and supported by the Imperial Women Coalition, Fathers Lives Matter, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Black Man's Army, and other Cleveland area activist groups, will again picket the embattled Cuyahoga County Jail at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland on Aug 15, 2019 at 11 am to protest jail conditions, nine inmate deaths in roughly a year, and for Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst to resign for harassing Blacks and activists, among other matters. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THIS PROTEST Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Organizers said that issues also include excessive force, bail reform, malicious prosecutions, grand jury tampering, indictment fixing, and excessive sentences by the 34 largely White general division common ple

Kamala Harris says Trump's racial rhetoric was ammunition for the mass shooting in El Paso, including, says Harris, his verbal attacks on congress persons of color, most of them women....Harris said she will issue executive orders on gun control if elected president....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), a former California attorney general and the only Black female candidate in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com DES MOINES, Iowa-  U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, one of two Blacks in the 2020 race for

Mitch McConnell's home picketed in Louisville over gun violence as U.S. Reps. Kaptur and Clyburn demand gun control legislation along with other congressional Democrats, the Dems demanding that Senate Majority Leader McConnell call the U.S. Senate back into session for a vote on pending gun control bills that have passed the Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and stalled in the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate.... Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has proposed expanded background checks in Ohio following mass shootings last week that killed 9 people in Dayton, Ohio and 22 in El Paso, Texas.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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From left: Democratic Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur , Democratic South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn ,  who is  the House Majority Whip and a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus,  and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.

Ohioans, Black community mourn death of Toni Morrison, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner and Ohio native, Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur calling Morrison 'Ohio's first lady of literature,' Morrison also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama....Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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Then president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to   Pulitzer  Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison in 2012,  Morrison an Ohio native and the first African- American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com -NEW YORK- The nation is mourning the death of iconic writer Toni

Cuyahoga County where 9 jail inmates have died names new interim sheriff as a search ensues for a permanent sheriff, the county jail in Cleveland dubbed one of the most notorious jails in the country.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief  at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.   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 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama   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 -  As a search committee looks for a permanent sheriff, Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, who appoints the county sheriff per the county charter, has appointed a new acting sheriff after the interim sheriff appointed five hours earlier on Monday was demoted to second in command because he could not meet