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 Vice  President  Kamala Harris, the first woman and first Black vice president of America  Clevelandurbannews.com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief WASHINGTON, D.C.- Vice President Kamala Harris, America's first woman and first Black vice president, has returned from her first foreign trip as vice president, a three-day visit to Guatemala and Mexico and one that has prompted more calls for the vice president to visit the Mexico–United States border, an international border separating Mexico and the U.S. that   extends from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east. Harris, 56 and a Democrat, has said that she will visit the border in due time and that there is no quick fix to the influx of Central American migrants to the U.S. A former California attorney general and U.S. senator, she said there’s a reason people are arriving at our border and that it is prudent in the least to "ask what

Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed 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.    By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed, a former councilman who lost a runoff election in 2017 to current Mayor Frank Jackson, announced on Tuesday that on Thursday he will submit the petition signatures that will qualify him to appear on the ballot for this year’s mayoral election.  A Cleveland mayoral candidate must submit at least 3,000 valid signatures to make the ballot, and Reed has more than enough signatures,  his campaign said on Tuesday.  A four-term Black mayor, Jackson said last month that he will not run for an unprecedented fifth four-year term.  Reed said in a press release that he is set to deliver his petitions to the Cuyahoga Board of Elections on June 10   at

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.    THIS EVENT WILL BE ON THE STEPS OF CLEVELAND CITY HALL: CLEVELAND, Ohio -Activists and others will rally Wed, June 9, 2021 at 5:15 pm on the steps of Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Ave in downtown Cleveland, Ohio to call for the city's court monitored consent decree for police reforms to remain intact. Event contact phone numbers are Black on Black Crime Inc. at (216) 804-7462 and Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473. In addition to Black on Black Crime Inc and Imperial Women Coalition, other affiliated activist groups are Cleveland Peace Action, Black Man's Army, and the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network. Masks are requested for this open-to-the-public peaceful rally. "Community activists will rally to demand that the consent decree for police reforms stays

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.    Fri 6/4/2021 at 7:30 PM Sat 6/5/2021 at 10 AM- 1 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio -June is PRIDE month, a month set aside to celebrate LGBTQ+ people. And in a normal year, organizers would ordinarily be getting ready for Price in the CLE, the annual celebration overseen by the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland. Though Cleveland is not quite back to normal yet from the cornavirus pandemic, Cleveland's LGBT center holding an event titled The PRIDE Ride, a parade of cars and other vehicles that takes off from Edgewater Park on Sat., June 5 at 10 am and will proceed through the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood on the city's west side. .  It will substitute for the traditional parade.  Decorated cars, trucks, van and bikes filled with cheering and celebrants will make a triumphant tour of the Edg

Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones 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.    By Rhonda Crowder, staff reporter-A one-on-one interview with Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones has been named by Council President Kevin Kelley to chair city council's transportation committee in place of Phyllis Cleveland, who resigned her city council seat in April for health reasons. In that role he will oversee Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Burke Lakefront Airport, the city-owned docks around FirstEnergy Stadium and lakefront museums, bridges, harbors, river and lake travel, and public transportation and limousine and taxi operations This is a one-on-one interview with Councilman Jones by reporter Rhonda Crowder for Clevelandurbannews.com   and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog

Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher and editor in chief Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  Ohio's leaders in Black and alternative digital news   CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio – Among some 20 applicants, Marian Anita Gardner has been appointed by Cuyahoga County Probate Chief Judge Anthony Russo as the interim replacement for Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson, whose four-year term ends Dec 31 and who was suspended from office on April 20 by a three-judge panel of retired judges appointed to hear the matter by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor. That suspension follows a 15-count federal indictment and arrest on theft and public corruption charges. A longtime Ward 4 resident who leads a nonprofit community organization dubbed Concerned Citizens Community Council, Gardner is not running in the crowded race for election to the Ward 4 council seat this year, which m