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  Vice  President  Kamala Harris, the first woman and first Black vice president of America, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) Clevelandurbannews.com and- Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.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, visited the Mexico-U.S. border nearly two weeks ago, her first trip to the border and one that follows heightened criticism that the vice president was avoiding such a trip in spite of a surge in illegal border crossings and drug trafficking on the southern border and even after her return last month from her first foreign trip as vice president, a three-day visit to Guatemala and Mexico. While the vice president made three stops in El Paso, Texas during her first trip to the Mexico-U.S. border, she did not visit the border wall. She did, however, tour border facilities wit

Ohio 11th Congressional District Candidate Nina Turner Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com . Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, has endorsed former Ohio senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate Nina Turner in the Democratic primary in the crowded race in Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district to replace former congresswoman Marcia L Fudge, now the U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development. "There is one person in this crowded field who has shown she isn't afraid to stand up to power and to partisan shibboleths, who has the guts to say what she thinks and do what's right for her constituents and country, who is passionate about public service and knows the issues, the personalities, the challenges better than anyone else in this race," the editorial reads in part "

    Retired Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals Judge Sara J. Harper (eighth from left),  also a former Cleveland judge,  joins representatives of the Volunteers of America Ohio and Indiana Sections, family members, including Harper's sister Gloria (sixth from left), Cleveland Councilman Kevin Conwell (second left), and Cuyahoga Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell ( far left) for a ground breaking ceremony announcing the beginning of construction of the Sara J. Harper Village, affordable housing for women veterans in Cleveland's historic Glenville neighborhood, At the far right is Harper's pastor, the Rev Larry Harris, senior pastor at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Cleveland Retired Judge Sara J. Harper This is what the Sara J. Harper Village will look like after construction is completed on the $1.2 million project, an affordable housing project in Cleveland's historic Glenville neighborhood funded by the Volunteers of America Ohio and Indiana Sections Clevelandurbannews.com and

Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed  By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com :  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed held a news conference on Wed, June 30  at Burke Lakefront Airport to announce his wide-ranging plan for redevelopment of the land that encompasses the historic airport,  a public airport on the shore of Lake Erie in the northeast part of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The former Ward 2 councilman who is Black and lost a non-partisan runoff against Mayor Frank Jackson in 2017 is among seven all Democratic mayoral candidates seeking the open seat this year as Jackson, 74 and also Black, has opted not to seek a historic fifth term.  The Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport should not be confused with the city's largest airport, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in the state.  Bu

From left: Ohio 11th Congressional District Candidate and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, U.S. Representative  and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) of South Carolina,  and Ohio 11th Congressional Ditsrict Candidate Nina Turner, a former Ohio senator and co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign From left: U.S. Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) of South Carolina, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary  Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) of Ohio, and Democratic United States President Joe Biden  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Influential U.S. Rep James Clyburn (D-SC), the majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives who is widely credited with turning around President Joe Biden's primary election campaign with an endorsement that brought him a win in South Carolina