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Six-year-old Clevelander Lyric Lawson to be laid to rest October 19, 2019, the Black child a victim of a drive by shooting as the killer or killers remain at large...."We need a thousand Black men and women to come out to say farewell to Lyric as her killer or killers are still at large," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime and the Black Man's Army who will speak on behalf of community activists at the homegoing celebration....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

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Six-year-old Cleveland drive by shooting murder victim Lyric Melodi Lawson Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chi ef CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists, community members and family and friends of 6-year-old Lyric Melodi Lawson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head while sleeping in her bed at 1300 block of E. 71st Street and St Clair Ave in the South Collinwood Neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will come together at 10 am on Sat , Oct 19 at Mount Sinai Baptist Church on the city's east side for funeral services as the Black child is laid to rest. "We need a thousand Black men and women to come out to say farewell to Lyric as her killer or killers are still at large," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black

Civil Rights leader Rep. Elijah Cummings dies amid fallout with President Trump, Cummings the son of a sharecropper and chair of the House oversight committee whose oversight drew the president's wraft... Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.

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Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings (MD-07) Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.   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 . CLEVELANDURBNNEWS.COM-BALTIMORE, Maryland-  Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, a Baltimore Democrat and sharecropper's son who rose from humble beginnings to become a respected and seasoned member of the U.S. House of Representatives, has died at 68, and amid a political fallout with President Donald Trump. His death comes as the 2020 election nears and Trump faces an impeachment inqui

Cleveland's Black museum to host fundraising masquerade ball on October 20, 2019....Cleveland has a legacy of Black history, including the late Carl B. Stokes as the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city, and his late brother Louis Stokes, the first Black congressman from Ohio....Garrett Morgan is a native of Cleveland who invented the traffic light and gas mask, and famed writer Langston Hughes graduated from Cleveland's public schools..."We urge people to join us at this necessary fundraising event to help keep African and African-American history alive, current and relevant in Cleveland, particularly for our children," said museum executive director Frances Caldwell, Caldwell also a community advocate and community activist.....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief The African-American Museum of Cleveland CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The African-American Museum of Cleveland will host a masquerade ball on Sun., Oct. 20, 2019 beginning at 6 pm at the museum at 1765 Crawford road in Cleveland's Ward 7 on the city's largely Black east side, the event a dressy affair to raise money for renovation of the city's historic Black cultural institution.  Contact the museum at (216) 721-6555 for more information. Tickets for the fundraiser, which can also be purchased at the door, are $50 for individuals and $75 for corporate and VIP tickets A dinner, a live band titled Kevin Conwell Band and Footprints,  and featuring saxophonist Russell Thomas, and music by D.J Ellery, will

4th Democratic Debate in Ohio takes on impeachment inquiry, abortion, opioids, gun violence that disproportionately impacts young Black men, medicare, the GM strike, domestic and foreign policy, Vladimir Putin, universal health care and child care, and the withdrawal from Syria of U.S. military forces....ODP Chairman David Pepper also spoke, as did DNC Chairman Tom Perez.....Pepper said that Ohio will be the state that ends the Trump presidency....On the issue of abortion and Ohio's six-week abortion ban, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, one of two Blacks in the race for president along with U.S. Senator Cory Booker, said that "people need to keep their hands off of women's bodies and let women make decisions about their own lives"....Booker said racism and elitism fuel the attention given to the opioids epidemic and that the crack epidemic does not get as much attention....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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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. 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 CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-WESTERVILLE, Ohio- Twelve 2020 Democratic presidential candidates debated Tuesday night at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, a Columbus suburb, Columbus the state capital and largest city in the state and Ohio a critical battleground state. Participating in the Fourth Democratic Debate were front runners former vice president Joe Biden and U.S. Sens Elizabeth Warren and

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to speak in Cleveland on voting right...Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Stacey Abrams Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. 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 CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Stacey Abrams, the Black Democrat who lost a close race for governor of Georgia last year and the chosen one to deliver the Democratic response to President Trump's January 2019 State of the Union address, will speak on voting rights in Cleveland, Sat. Oct 19, 2019 at 4:30 pm at the union headquarters of SEIU at 1771 East 30th St. on the city's la