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  Pictured is President Joe Biden speaking at a previous conference on the Black agenda and voting and Civil Rights sponsored by the National Action Network, which is led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. At a recent conference of NAN President Biden said Jim Crow laws are coming back such as in Georgia and this time they are suppressing the Black vote with a vengeance. Read our story on this below President Joe Biden and the Rev Al Sharpton of the National Action Network at a previous NAN conference on the Black agenda in America and voting and Civil Rights, among other public policy matters Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate  publisher NEW YORK- President Joe Biden, a longtime   former  U.S. senator from Delaware who served  as vice president under former president Barack Obama for eight years  and chose a Black woman in Vice President Kamala Harris as

    Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and twenty-year-old Daunte Wright Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota-   A White Minnesota cop who admitted gunning down 20-year old Daute Wright during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center and later quit the force has been charged with second degree manslaughter in the young Black man's death. Kim Potter, 48 and a 26-year veteran with the Brooklyn Center police department  before she quit the post, appeared in court yesterday in an orange jail jump suit. She posted 10 percent of a $100,000 bond and is free on bail.   Wright's killing comes as the prosecution rest in the George Floyd murder trial and the defense begins presenting its case in a courtroom in Minneapolis just 10 miles down the road from Brooklyn Ce

     Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota-  Police clashed with protesters Tuesday night in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center  and a few were arrested after refusing to disassemble during a third night of protesting in response to the police killing on Sunday afternoon of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, Wright's killing coming as the prosecution rest in the George Floyd murder trial and the defense begins presenting its case in a courtroom in Minneapolis just 10 miles down the road. Protesters, young and old alike, have marched  through the city of Brooklyn Center demanding justice for Wright since the killing occurred earlier this week.  The protesting began Sunday night where protesters quarreled with police and broke into some 20 local businesses, and

Vice President Kamala Harris    Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate p ublisher  WASHINGTON, D.C. -Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black and first female vice president whom president Joe Biden tapped to run on his presidential ticket and a former U.S. senator and California attorney general, spoke out on Tuesday against the tragic police shooting death in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday afternoon of twenty-one-year-old Daunte Wright as protesters continued to clash with police during the third night of contentious protesting.  The outspoken Harris, who is an Obama ally and an unsuccessful candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president who impressed Joe Biden enough that he wanted her on his team, said that Wright should be alive today and that he died unjustly at th

Protesters in Brooklyn, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb located some 10 miles from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May of 2020, clash with police after the police shooting death on Sunday of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. CNN photo Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota -As the prosecution in the murder trial of fired Minneapolis  police officer Derek Chauvin brings its case to an end, a 20-year-old Black man in Minnesota was shot by a White police officer and died following a traffic stop on Sunday i n the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, drawing hundreds of protesters to the streets Sunday night as protesters clashed with police. (Editor's note: Chauvin is White and on trial for killing George  Floyd, who was Black, on May 25 following an arrest and faces charges of second degree int

Hershawna Rias Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  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.   CLEVELAND, Ohio-  A 17-year-old  Black girl's body was discovered Thursday afternoon at Martin Luther King Park on Cleveland's largely Black east side with multiple gun shot wounds to her head, police said Friday as the unidentified killers or killers remain at large and police have no suspects.  Hershawna Rias was  found by park personnel lying dead in the grass about 11:40 a.m., according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.   T he park is at East 107th Street at Elk Avenue. Rias was reported missing on this most recent occasion