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  Shondo Moffitt, who collapsed and died on Mon, April 11, 2022 in the Cuyahoga County jail in Cleveland, Ohio where some 12 inmates have died since 2018 when U.S. Marshals issued a stinging report that deemed the jail inhumane and unconstitutional Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief, investigative reporter CLEVELAND, Ohio- Another inmate has died in the troubled Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland where an astonishing nine inmates died between 2018-2019 and several more thereafter, including in 2020, U.S. Marshals issuing a stinging report in November of 2018 that deemed the gross mistreatment of the majority Black inmates inhumane and unconstitutional.  According to a county spokesperson, Shondo Moffitt , who was Black, collapsed at the jail at around 12:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon. He had been in the facility since Feb 15 for failure to appear for a Feb 25 hearing. He was taken to MetroHealth Medi

   By   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Led by head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, the Cleveland Cavaliers ended their regular season with a bang on Sunday evening by defeating the Milwaukee Bucks 133-115 before a sellout crowd at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland, a much needed win that strengthened Cleveland's spot  as  the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 seed heading into the play-in tournament that could lead to a playoffs spot.  Sunday's win closes out the regular season for the Cavs with a 44-38 win-loss record,  a comeback win from Friday night's embarrassing loss to the Brooklyn Nets that saw the Cavs lose the  chance at hosting the first play-in game. And it was, by all accounts,  an indication of what success could lie ahead as Cleveland gets ready for a play-in game without Jarrett Allen, the team's  All-Star center who was  sidelined indefinitely after breaking his left middle finger in the win over the T

Newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the nation's first Black female justice, and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a Cleveland Democrat  Pictured at right are former first lady Michelle Obama, the nation's first Black first lady, Vice President Kamala Harris, the country's first Black and first woman vice president, and the Honrable Justice Jackson    Ketanji Brown Jackson, the nation's first Black female justice, meets with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a Cleveland Democrat, on Tues, April 5, 2022, two days      before she is confirmed as the first Black woman U.S. Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 53-47  Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman  U.S. Supreme Court Justice, during U.S. Senate confirmation hearings The current nine-member U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Stephen Bryer (front row 4th from left), one of thre liberals on the court, set to retire. On Thurs., April 7, 2022 the U.S. Senate voted to confirm

From left Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, City Council President Blaine Griffin, Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Michelle Earley, Cleveland Law Director Mark Griffin,  and Chief City Prosecutor  Acqueelah Jordan Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb joined Chief Prosecutor Aqueelah Jordan, Law Director Mark Griffin, and City Council President Blaine Griffin at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland as Jordan and Griffin filed motions in the Cleveland Municipal Court clerk's office for judges to hold hearings to possibly expunge 4,077 records of low-level marijuana convictions dating back to 2017. Though guided by state law and other authorities, expunging a criminal record in Ohio remains at the discretion of trial court judges. Most of the people impacted by the motions filing are Black and Cleveland is a largely Black major American city of some 372,000 people. "Toda