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  Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley (left) and Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin  Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com      CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley and Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin, head of city's council's public safety committee, are discussing a possible change in Mayor Frank Jackson's chase policy and held a press conference on the controversial issue on Friday in the Tremont neighborhood on the city's largely White west side. They really lack authority to alter the policy. The current policy, adopted in 2015 by  Jackson behind a 2012 police chase that left two unarmed Blacks dead and shot up by 13 non-Black cops slinging 137 bullets at them, essentially precludes a police chase absent suspicion that the suspect has either committed a violent felony or is und

  The late Breonna Taylor Louisville Metro police officers Sgt Jonathan Mattingly, detective Brett Hankison and  Myles Cosgrove, Hankison fired by   Louisville  Metro Police Chief Robert J. Schroeder in connection with the March 13, 2020 shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. LOUISVILLE, Kentucky- Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com remembers Breonna Taylor on the March 13 anniversary of her death. Today marks the one-year anniversary of her tragic death. Activists marched with her family members in Louisville today to remember her, and marches were also held in some other cities nationwide. The young Black woman was gunned down by Louisville Metro police on March, 13, 2020 when three of them entered her apartment unannounced via a no knock narcotics warrant and a shoot out between the cops and her live-in boyfriend occurred. No drugs were found on the premises. The city of Louisville settle

  Protesters in Cleveland who rallied for justice for George Floyd on May 30 torched  police cars as violence erupted in the largely Black major American city Thousands gather at the Free Stamp next to Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland on Sat., May 30 for a rally for  justice for Minneapolis police murder victim George Floyd, a rally that turned violent and erupted into riots. Photo by Tristan Rader 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 (A longtime Cleveland activist and community organizer, Coleman, also a former educator, attended the

  Zack Reed Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest  By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio -Former Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed's final day working for Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose was March 12, the former Cleveland councilman who lost to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in a non-partisan mayoral runoff in 2017  setting a stage for an apparent second run for mayor this year.  A Black Democrat, Reed has worked as a minority affairs coordinator for LaRose since 2019 after foregoing a reelection bid for his Ward 2 city council seat in 2017 in hopes of unseating Jackson, a four- term Black mayor whom sources say is not seeking reelection.  "We’ll miss having him out in the field where he helped boost voter engagement and strengthen minority businesses," Frank LaRose said in a farewell statement, "but I know his heart is in Cleveland and I w

  Ohio 11th Congressional District Candidate Nina Turner Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former state senator Nina Turner, a front-runner for the 11th congressional seat vacated by former Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge who resigned from Congress earlier this week after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has received the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union District 1199 (SEIU District 1199), a chapter union of SEIU. Nationally SEIU consists of some  2 million members in healthcare in the public sector and property services.     “Nina Turner is a fighter, an advocate, a professor, a mother, and the leader working people need in Congress fighting for them,” said Becky Williams, president of SEIU District 1199 WV/KY/OH and a national vice president SEIU. “Nina has fought for rights,