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Cleveland Browns lead quarterback Baker Mayfield ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) BEREA, Ohio- Cleveland Browns lead quarterback Baker Mayfield, 26, and head coach Kevin Stefanski have tested positive for COVID-19 followed by second string quarterback Case Keenum, who was to replace Mayfield for Monday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders before he found out on Thursday that he too had tested positive for the coronavirus.   Third-string quarterback Nick Mullens, a former player with the  49ers, has been called up to replace Keenum for Monday's game as the likely starter. The roster of Browns players quarantined for testing positive for the rapidly spreading virus is growing. Four defensive players also tested positive Thursday, namely safeties Ronnie Harrison and Grant Delpit, linebacker Jacob Phillips and cornerback A.J. Green.   David Njoku will play Monday as he comes back from a COVID-19 leave.   In addition to coach Stefanski, wh

    United States Vice President Kamala Harris   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) . By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief WASHINGTON, D.C.-  In a 5-4 split decision, the U.S.  Supreme Court  on Friday refused to reverse the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and  allowed a  Texas law that bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy to remain in effect, denying requested emergency relief from abortion providers who had asked the nation's highest court to put the law on hold as legal challenges from opponents of the new measure make their way through the courts. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat and former California attorney general, and the country's first woman and first Black vice president, was disappointed with the court decision and said in a press release on Saturday to  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com  that  " the harm to women remains," and that "w

  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief COLUMBUS, Ohio- The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments via a hearing Wednesday relative to three pending lawsuits challenging Republican-approved state legislative district maps, controversial maps approved in September by the Ohio Redistricting Commission (ORC), which is under fire and accused of  approving illegally drawn maps that are racist and that favor Republican candidates for office. (Editor's note: The ORC also has jurisdiction under state law to approve congressional district maps when the state legislature reaches an impasse on the issue but this article pertains to the controversy around the ORC's drawing of maps for state legislative districts, and three pending lawsuits that say the new maps are unconstitutional). Set to take effect for the 2022 elections for open seats on the  Ohio state legislature, such maps determ

( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio— MetroHealth, University Hospitals and the  Cleveland Clinic, one of the top medical centers in the country,   have temporarily halted scheduling new nonessential surgeries due to increases in coronavirus cases.  “We continue to see rapidly increasing inpatient volumes and patients hospitalized with  COVID-19  across our Ohio hospitals,” a Cleveland Clinic spokesperson said in a statement.  Due to a rapid decline in hospital bed availability, all nonessential surgeries scheduled for Dec. 8 through Dec. 17 must be rescheduled, the clinic said, aside from Lutheran Hospital, the only hospital not a part of this plan. But the clinic and the other two hospitals that announced limitations in the amount of surgeries performed due to COVID-19, MetroHealth and University Hospitals, will remain open for emergency situations. “Essential and urgent surgeries, as well as heart, cancer, pediatric and tr

                              Murder victim Kalyn K. Moore ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) . EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 28-year-old East Cleveland woman found dead in a playground Monday morning has been identified as Kalyn K. Moore, of East Cleveland  The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death of the young, Black woman a homicide.  Her body  was discovered by a person walking a dog  at about 9:28 am  at Hawley Playground  between Euclid Avenue and Terrance Road just south of Hastings Avenue in the poor Black Cleveland suburb of some 17,000 people.  Community activists remain upset over what they say is a crisis regarding the murders of young, Black women in Cleveland and East Cleveland.  "This is a continuation of the growing epidemic of murders of Black women and poor women in Cleveland and neighboring East Cleveland," said longtime activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a w

( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – As Christmas nears the murders of Black women in Cleveland and its neighboring suburbs like the impoverished East Cleveland continue to rise  as East Cleveland police are investigating the shooting death of an unarmed Black woman whose body was discovered by a person walking a dog  at about 9:28 am Mon., Dec 6  at Hawley Playground  between Euclid Avenue and Terrance Road just south of Hastings Avenue in the poor Black suburb of some 17,000 people. Community activists became immediately upset. "This is a continuation of the growing epidemic of murders of Black women and poor women in Cleveland and neighboring East Cleveland," said longtime activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a women's rights group founded around the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by the late serial killer Anthony Sowell.  "And we call on la