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Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief (Cleveland, Ohio) -  Cleveland mayoral candidate Zack Reed will unveil his safety plan on Wed., July 14 at 10:30 am on the front steps of Cleveland City hall in downtown Cleveland, a plan he says will go a long way toward reducing crime in Cleveland.   "The plan addresses pressing needs of both the police department and the community at-large," Reed said. “We are not going to simply police our way out of the scourge of violence that has enveloped this city." He went on to say that "there must be acknowledgement of the symptoms that have caused this epidemic to spiral out of control in the first place, while also ensuring that our safety forces are staffed and equipped to deal with these issues in a constitutional manner.” The former Ward 2 councilman

George Dixon The legendary Lancer Steakhouse in Cleveland, Ohio during its heyday Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and  independent blog in Ohio and in the Midwest, and the most read independent digital  news site in Ohio.   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a seasoned Black journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. She is an experienced political and investigative reporter. CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Funeral services have been announced for beloved Cleveland restaurateur George Dixon lll, the owner and operator of the now defunct and legendary Lancer Steakhouse in Cleveland and a former Cleveland School Board member and former president of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees, a post

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  Staff report CLEVELAND, Ohio -Sexual assault of women inmates is on the rise   in the  troubled and inhumane  Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland where some dozen inmates have died since 2018, many of the deaths questionable and still under investigation by authorities, and at least one of them involving the murder of an inmate. Indicted Cuyahoga County Corrections Officer Andre Julius Bacsa Corrections officer Andre Julius Bacsa, who is White and weights at least 300 lbs, was indicted by a county grand jury on three counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery, five counts of kidnapping, one count of sexual imposition and one count of intimidation of a crime victim.  He was arrested on June 29 and is now on administrative leave without pay.  He remains in jail on a $100,000 bond and will be arraigned on July 12. Hired in 2019, prosecutors say Bacsa sexually as

U.S. Congressional Candidate Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman and the first Black to lead the county Democratic party 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 –U.S. Congressional Candidate Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman and the first Black to lead the county Democratic party, will cast her vote for herself at 10 am on Friday, July 9 at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, the third day of early voting in Ohio for the special congressional election. The special primary election for Ohio's 11th congressional district seat, held separately for the Democratic primary and the Republican primary, is Aug 3 with the general election in which the Democratic and Republican winners will square off

Former president Donald Trump    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ex-president Donald Trump, whom current president Joe Biden unseated last November via a contentious presidential election, announced Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google and their respective CEO's of Mark Zuckerburg, Jack Dorsey, and Sudar Pichai in response to what he says is censorship by the tech giants who banned him from the social media outlets earlier this year.  Facebook banned the former president from posting on its site indefinitely after accusations that he violated its rules by inciting the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, and Twitter banned him until 2023. Twitter offered the same reason for kicking him to cu

  U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner of Cleveland 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 –U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner, the front-runner among 13 Democratic candidates seeking to replace former congresswoman and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge in Congress representing Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, will cast her vote for herself at 8 am on Wed., July 7 at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, the first day of early voting in Ohio for the special congressional election. The special primary election for Ohio's 11th congressional district seat, held separately for the Democratic primary and the Republican primary, is Aug 3 with the general election