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REPORT FROM THE US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) WASHINGTON -D.C.- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. While this and other vaccines have met the FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approv

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   CLEVELAND, OHIO – Cleveland activists, led by Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc., and members of the Cleveland African-American Museum and the Black Women's PAC, will host a mayoral forum with all seven Cleveland mayoral candidates on Mon., Aug 23, 2021 beginning at noon at Annie B's Pancake House, 4017 Saint Clair Avenue on the city's largely Black east side as the Sept. 14 nonpartisan primary for mayor and the 17 city council seats nears. The general election in which the top two vote-getters for mayor and from each of the city's wards will square off is Nov 2 with early voting already underway. "Grassroots activists of Cleveland look forward to meeting with the seven mayoral hopefuls in the heart of Cleveland's Black community to discuss issues of public concern that we have been fighting in the trenches on and to

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and Ohio GOP incumbent Governor Mike DeWine Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black and alternative digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief   DAYTON, Ohio- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley, the mayor of the city of Dayton and currently the only woman Democrat in the 2022 race for Ohio governor, is calling on incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican who faces opponents from his own party as to next year's governors' race, to issue a statewide order requiring masks for Ohio's school children as the academic school year gets underway.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending masks and Whaley says DeWine should piggy back on that recommendation.   "Masks and vaccines work and it is our responsibility as

Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black and alternative digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com LANCASTER COUNTY, South  Carolina- A 16-year-old student has died of complications from COVID-19, a vivid reminder of the dangers the nation's school children face as they return to school amid a still raging pandemic that is complicated by a rapidly spreading delta variant, a more contagious strain of the coronavirus.  A Lancaster County, South Carolina    teen, school district officials have confirmed the tragic death.  "We are saddened to learn of the passing of a 16-year-old Andrew Jackson High student from Covid complications," Lancaster County School District Superintendent Jonathan Phipps said in a statement. Chief Deputy Coroner Jennifer Collins confirmed the student died August 12 and told CNN that the district already had 21 students infected with Covid-19 and 5

Ohio State Senator Sandra Williams (D-21), and State Representatives Stephanie Howse ( D-11), Terrence Upchurch (D-10), and Juanita Brent (D-12) Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black and alternative digital newspaper By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio -  Ohio's Black state lawmakers from Cleveland , namely state Reps. Stephanie Howse (D-11,) Terrence Upchurch (D-10) and Juanita Brent (D-12), and state Sen Sandra Williams (D-21), the only woman in the seven-way race for mayor this year, met with residents in Ward 7 Monday evening in the historic Hough neighborhood at Wade Park Elementary School for a community forum. All four of them are Democrats and Democrats are in the super minority in the Republican-dominated state House and the state Senate in Ohio. The event was hosted by Howse, who lives in Hough and is running in a crowded race for city council in Ward 7, and Upchuch. It was

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland's third Black mayor, and Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio -  Retiring four-term Black mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland's third Black mayor and its longest serving mayor, has endorsed longtime ally Council President Kevin Kelley to replace him, paving the way for a possible White mayor of the 58 percent Black major American city of some 372,000 residents.  Kelley is a  west side councilman who leads Ward 13 and has been a councilman since 2005. Also a practicing attorney, he has been city council president since 2014.  The nonpartisan primary election is set for Sept 14 and the general election in which the top two vote-getters will square off is Nov. 2 “I have worked with Kevin for more than 20 years and during this time, he has made