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  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   CLEVELAND, OHIO – U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner will meet with grassroots Cleveland activists for a late brunch on Wed., July 28 at a restaurant in Ward 7 in the heart of Cleveland's historic Hough neighborhood to discuss her campaign platform relative to issues such as criminal justice reform, violence against women, public and higher education, the $15 minimum wage, and COVID-19 disparities in the Black community. (Call (216) 659-0473 or email organizers at editor@clevelandurbannews.com to R.S.V.P. for the brunch) Speakers include Scott Hawkins, the father of Arthur Keith, who was gunned down by CMHA police, the mother of Cleveland murder victim Destiny Hardwick, who was 21 and whose killer remains at large, activist Genevieve Mitchell, who will introduce Turner, activist and retired Plain Dealer reporter Dick Peery, Cleveland Councilman Kevi

    Pictured at top right is filmmaker and Oscar- winning actor Tom Hanks Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  Tom Hanks   CLEVELAND, Ohio – Beginning next season the Cleveland Indians, a major league baseball club stationed in Cleveland, Ohio, will fully phase out the team's offensive name of Cleveland Indians and replace it with the new name of the Cleveland Guardians, franchise officials announced Friday morning through respected filmmaker and Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, the spokesman on the controversial issue for the franchise. "You see, there's always been a Cleveland -- that's the best part of our name," Hanks says in a video announcement he narrated for the team, which posted it on Twitter . "And now it's time to unite as one family, one community, to build the next era for this team and this city." A legendary actor and filmmaker who has collaborate

  Pictured is the late poet and playwright Langston Hughes, also a social activist, Black columnist, avid  story teller, and famed B lack novelist who wrote fiction books The Karamu House theater in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest African-American theater in the United States CLEVELAND, Ohio- Karamu House in Cleveland will receive a $75,000 grant from the African-American Cultural House fund to restore the apartment residence in Cleveland of the late poet and playwright Langston Hughes, who was also a social activist, a Black columnist, an avid story teller and $75a famed novelist who wrote fiction books. The $75,000 grant is part of a $3 million grant from  the  National Trust for Historic Preservation  to help restore African-American landmarks and will be used  to restore Hughes' former apartment residence  for use as short-term housing for emerging artists of color to reside to study art-in-residence,  Karamu officials said.  Though Hughes grew up in a series of mid-western towns a

From left: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-V T), U.S. Congressional Candidate Tina Turner, Civil Rights Leader Ben Jealous, and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   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 announced on Wednesday that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will travel to Ohio's 11th Congressional District during the final week of the campaign to headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Turner, an event that will take place on Sat., July 31 at the Agora Theater on Euclid Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side. The rally, which will feature local leaders and musical artists, will begin with an 11:30 am rally and will be followed by a 2 pm march, the Turner campaign said in a press release on Thursday . Doors open at 10:30 am. A Black Democrat and former Ohio

    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.  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Most people who have not been vaccinated or previously infected with  COVID-19 will contract the strain of COVID dubbed the Delta- plus coronavirus variant, health experts said on Sunday. "Most people will either get vaccinated, or have been previously infected, or they will get this Delta variant," Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration during the Trump administration,  Gottlieb said that "for most people who get this Delta variant, it's going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital."  And this new strain is more transmissible, more dangerous, and at least 60 percent more contagious, data sho