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Girl gives birth and hands baby to stranger in restaurant before fleeing

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Diners at a  New Jersey  restaurant  got more than they ordered this week when a girl – who had apparently just given birth – dumped her newborn  baby  onto them and fled the restaurant. Frankie Aguilar, an employee at a restaurant called El Patron, told Leigh Valley Live that a girl who “looked a little bit desperate” walked in around 4pm on Wednesday with the newborn in her arms. She apparently began asking for help. The El Patron staff called the police, thinking that  law enforcement  could assist the girl. CLICK HERE TO GO TO READ THE FULL STORY AT YAHOO.COM

President Joe Biden to visit Cleveland, Ohio next week, his first visit to the largely Black major American city since becoming president....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black and alternative digital news leaders

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  United States President Joe Biden   By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher Clevelandurbannews.com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Joe Biden will visit Cleveland on Thursday, May 27 for a speech on the economy, his second trip to Ohio since assuming office as president in January and his first to the largely Black major American city of Cleveland since last year’s first presidential debate. Cleveland is a Democratic stronghold and so is the county it sits in, Cuyahoga County, a 29 percent Black county, and the second largest of Ohio's 88 counties, behind Franklin County, which includes Columbus, the state capitol and the state's largest city by population.  And all of the 17 members of Cleveland City Council are Democrats as is Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's four-term Black mayor, a relatively popular mayor who has opted not to seek reelection this year to an unprecedented fifth term.   Then the Democratic nominee, Bide

Biden administration reverses Trump's 'redlining' changes to bank-anti discrimination law, a reversal pushed by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, other Democrats in Congress....The Community Reinvestment Act was enacted by Congress in 1977 to protect poor and minority borrowers against bank discrimination, a law the Trump administration watered down in 2020 only to have President Biden reverse Trump's changes to the law this week...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohios' Black and alternative digital news leaders

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United States President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher Clevelandurbannews .com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that the Biden administration will repeal the changes made late last year by the Trump administration to a federal law designed to stop banks from discriminating against America's racial minorities and the poor, including Black people. The reversal action comes after Congressional Democrats like U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown of Cleveland urged the president, who unseated former president Donald Trump via the November presidential election, to reverse Trump's changes to the bank anti-discrimination law that he made before leaving office in January. Those Trump administration changes to the law, which Civil Rights organizes like the NAACP vehemently oppose, include stripping away Civil Rights of borrowers and introducing more l

Pro-Palestinian rally continues on Public Square in Cleveland on Sunday against Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and follows a pro-Israel rally held in Beachwood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb....Protests are being held in cities nationwide....The war rages on as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues in the Middle-East.... U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders called for an even-handed approach to the controversy and called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "racist"

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Pro-Palestinian supporters rally on Public Square in downtown Cleveland in response to Israeli  airstrikes in Gaza over the past week and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle east All photos by Don Bryant Pro-Palestinian supporters rally on Public Square in downtown Cleveland on May 16 in response to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past week and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle east  Pro-Palestinian supporters rally on Public Square in downtown Cleveland on May 16 in response to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past week and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle east   Greater Cleveland activist Don Bryant marches with  Pro-Palestinian supporters at a rally on Public Square in downtown Cleveland on May 16 in response to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the past week and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the  Middle east   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black d

The late Kobe Bryan, a Lakers star and NBA legend, inducted into basketball hall of fame

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NBA basketball legend the late Kobe Bryant The late Kobe Bryant, his wife Vanessa, and their four children before the helicopter crash in January of 2020 that claimed the lives of Kobe, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna (fat left), the pilot, and six others Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts- NBA basketball legend the late Kobe Bryant, who spent his entire 20 years in the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers as a shooting guard and died in a helicopter crash nearly a year and a half ago, was posthumously i nducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020 on Saturday night. The Naismith  Memorial Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame located a

Tina Turner, Jay-Z and Carole King among 2021 Cleveland Rock Hall inductees as Chaka Khan is snubbed for a second time since 2016....The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of inductees has become more diverse over the years....This year's ceremony will be held live in Cleveland, Ohio and will air at a later date on HBO and HBO Max...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black and alternative digital news leaders

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The 2021 Rock Hall class includes Tina Turner, rapper Jay-Z and Carole King, among others The late Whitney Houston and the late The Notorious B.I.G. were both among the 2020 Rock Hall Class of inductees, which also included  Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers,  Nine Inch Nails, T. Rex, and artist managers Jon Landau and Irving Azoff  Grammy winning Black R&B artists Janet Jackson (left) and Chaka Khan were among 15 nominees, either by consideration as a group or individual, slated for possible induction in 2016 to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a landmark music history museum located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. But they were snubbed  as were Black artists in general that year,  all but one group, and women were snubbed entirely. A third of the 15 2016  nominees were Since then the Rock Hall inductee classes have become more diverse. Jackson was later inducted in 2019. Clevelandurbannews .com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, assoc