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Ohio's governor lifts statewide nightly curfew as coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations are down....Bars and restaurants can now resume regular operating hours....By clevelandurbannews.com and kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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  Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest.   Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher. COLUMBUS, Ohio- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has lifted his 10 pm- 5 am late night statewide curfew, paving the way for bars and restaurants to pursue regular operating hours, a curfew he initiated in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Ohio has rep

Convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell dies: Activists to rally in response to death of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell in prison at 4:30 pm on Thursday, February 11, 2021 on Imperial Avenue where he murdered 11 Black women and raped three others who escaped his wrath...."We are pleased that Anthony Sowell and his attorneys can no longer file frivolous appeals of his convictions on 82 of 83 counts and that the families of Sowell's victims have gotten some degree of closure but so much more work is needed to protect Black women in Cleveland from these heinous types of crimes and violence in general," said Imperial Women Coalition founder and Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who has been the head organizer of nearly every anniversary rally and march relative to the Imperial Avenue Murders since 2010, including the anniversary rally held last October. "Men will be at Thursday's rally in support of Black women on this issue as we have always done," said Black on Black Crime President Alfred Porter Jr. "Sowell and his attorneys can no longer misuse the system"....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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  Convicted serial killer  Anthony Sowell                               Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. CLEVELAND, Ohio -Greater Cleveland community activists, elected officials, and community members in general, led by the Imperial Women Coalition, Peace in the Hood, and Black on Black Crime Inc., will rally  on Thurs., Feb 11, 2021 at 4:30 pm on 12205 Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side in front of where convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell's home once stood and where he murdered 11 Black women and raped three others who escaped his wrath (Call the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473 for more information. Masks  and social distancing are required). CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THE RALLY  Sowell, 61, died Feb 8 at  the end-of-life care unit at the Franklin Medical Center in Col

Blacks still being denied felony jury trials in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County as common pleas judges, led by Chief Judge Brendan Sheehan, try to coerce plea deals or guilty pleas for County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley's office while unconstitutionally denying people such right to a jury trial and using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse.... And some Blacks and others remain in jail awaiting a jury trial as the coronavirus plagues the county jail where more than 10 inmates have died in the past three years, at least one of them murdered.... Community activists continue to demand that Judge Sheehan resign from the bench....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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      Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest.   Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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, associate publisher, editor-in-chief  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Led by presiding and administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan (pictured), the 34 largely White judges of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas general division bench in Cleveland, Ohio are attempting to coerce defendants into taking plea deals or pleading guilty by denying them their statutory and constitutional right to a jury trial, even though the judges, who hear the felony cases at issue, ha

Lifetime airs documentary on music icon Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina titled "Didn't We Almost Have It All".... Read the Whitney Houston story here....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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T he late famed pop singer Whitney Houston and her daughter and only child, the late Bobbi Kristina Brown. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief NEW YORK, New York -Lifetime aired a two hour documentary Saturday night on the life and legacy of the the late famed pop singer Whitney Houston and her daughter and only child Bobbi Kristina Brown. While Houston's nephew, godchild and some associates are among those featured in the documentary film, former  sister -in-law Tina  Brown  delivers some of the biggest revelations, and  discusses using drugs with Houston, as well as  Bobbi Kristina's drug use while Houston was alive. Tina Brown speaks in the film at length as having known Houston up close as a sister-in-law also struggling beside her with drug addiction and said that both she and Houston were sexually molested as teens and that illegal drugs, mainly cocaine, helped to dull their pain that

Democrat Dr. Amy Acton may run for the U.S. senate seat currently held by Rob Portman...Acton is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health and was a key advisor to Gov DeWine on COVID-19 policies

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Dr. Amy Acton Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest, and the most read independent digital news in Ohio.   Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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 . COLUMBUS , Ohio – Former Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton, who held the director's   job under Republican Gov Mike DeWine from 2019 until she resigned the post last year to take a job with the non-profit organization the Columbus Foundation, announced Thursday that she is considering running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Rob Portman , a Cincinnati   Democrat  who has said he will not seek reelection in 2022. Other Democrats considering a bid for the powerful seat,