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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, will layoff a third of its 168 newsroom staff next year Guild President Harlan Spector told union members in an email today.  Spector said that management had notified him that some 58 union positions of the Northeast Ohio Guild Local One are subject to either layoff or an offer at Cleveland.com, the newspaper's online news venue which brings in a fraction of the revenue the print newspaper gets. The Guild includes reporters, columnists, photographers, designers and some editors.  On Sunday Spector and former Guild president and retired Plain Dealer Reporter Richard Peery met with a group of Cleveland area majority Black community activist leaders and some Black elected officials at Lil Africa on Cleveland's

Emilliano Terry By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community activists will protest on Tuesday, Dec 4 at 11:00 am in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building for Cuyahoga County Family and Children Services, 3955 Euclid Ave in Cleveland, over the neglect by the agency and Cuyahoga County officials in the murder case of three-year-old Emilliano Terry, which followed cries for help from the agency by his mother, 20-year-old Camilia Terry. " Ohio  Communities  United will be gathering in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building on Tuesday Dec 4, 2012 at 11 am to protest the failure of this system of both mother and child, Camillia and Emilliano Terry," said Community Activist Mariah Crenshaw in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com. "We ask people to join us and to invite others in the communit

Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activists will protest today, Dec 3 at 4 pm at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland over the shooting deaths last week by Cleveland police of Timothy Ray Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, both Black.  Some 30 police cars, 13 from Cleveland,  were involved in a 25 minute police chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland of the car Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger that went into East Cleveland by Heritage Middle School at Wymore and Terrace Avenues with 137 bullets into the car. Police have said that police allegedly heard a gunshot. The unprecedented shooting  has outraged the Black community and family members of the two victims that were not wanted by the law but

Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), a Cleveland Democrat  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church Senior Pastor Rev E. Theophilus Caviness, who is also 1st vice president of the Cleveland NAACP and the executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a  small but influential group of black ministers, labor officials and community activists met at a Glenville area church Tuesday night to promote the candidacy of State Sen. Nina Turner(D-25) as Ohio’s next Secretary of State. They hope to convince Turner, a former Cleveland Ward 1 council person and a Cleveland Democrat to take on Republican  Jon Husted for the seat in 2014. The Rev E Theophilus Caviness L-R: first row, Marcia McCoy, Bishop F.E. Perry, Rev. E.T. Caviness,  Fred Harris,  Vic Rubenstein, Art McKoy, Darlene Hardiman; 2d row: Richard Nix, Rev. Tyrone Davis,Shermaine Oliver, Barbara Rogers, [Cleveland Black Nurses Association] 

Harlan Spector Richard  Peery Debra Adams Simmons Terry Egger By Kathy Wray Coleman "We really appreciate the opportunity but are unavailable on such late notice."... Plain Dealer Publisher Terry Egger and Editor Debra Adams Simmons in a prepared statement to Cleveland Urban News.Com....Read this quote and more in the article below CLEVELAND, Ohio- A former and current president of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Local One of the Northeast Ohio Newspaper's Guild, the newspaper's union for some 170 reporters, photographers, designers and other employees, will speak and take questions from a panel and the community at a  grassroots  forum on the union's campaign push to keep the Plain Dealer a daily print publication on Sunday, Dec. 2, from 2:30-4:30 pm at Lil Africa Recreation Center, 6816 Superior Ave in Cleveland. The event will be moderated by State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), who said that he "would be happy to moderate the forum." (F

Emilliano Terry Camilia Terry By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists and other community affiliates will hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday Nov. 28 at 5:30 pm at Kassouth Park in Cleveland at E. 121st St and Williams Ave near Shaker Blvd. to remember three-year-old Emilliano Terry, whose missing body was found by police in a  waste treatment landfill in Oakwood Village on Monday. The boy was initially thought to have been missing from the Buckeye Ave. apartment in Cleveland where he lived with his 20-year-old mother and two young siblings.  Camilia Terry, whose cries for help were ignored by the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services, was arrested Monday and taken into custody in the connection with the death of her son. His lifeless body was  recovered  wrapped in

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio- Former Democratic Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who beat Republican incumbent attorney general Betty Montgomery in a heated fight to win the seat in  2006 only to resign amid a sexual scandal in May of 2008 where he admitted having sex with a female employee, was issued a six month suspension by the Ohio Supreme Court of his law license last week.  It did not help that Ohio's high court has six Republicans out of seven, a venue considered a stronghold for the Ohio Republican Party.  Dann pleaded guilty in 2010 to misdemeanor charges of misuse of campaign funds for rent and utilities on a condominium and a $5,000 gift loan. A second charge accused him of knowingly filing a false financial disclosure form. In a scathing rebuke the seven justices said that Dann must be he

Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller was arrested on suspension of driving under the influence at 1 am Monday morning and pleaded not guilty when  he appear in Cleveland Municipal Court Monday morning. Miller is one of nine Blacks on the 19-member all Democratic city council. He is a close ally to council president Martin Sweeney and is the second currently sitting council member to draw a DUI charge behind Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, who pleaded guilty twice to DUI, served jail time, and says he is now clean. Cleveland is a majority Black major metropolitan city of some 400,000 people. Miller  faces reelection in 2013 as the council seats and position of city mayor are up for grabs with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson alread

By Ohio  State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) as a guest columnist to the Plain Dealer Newspaper, Ohio's largest newspaper. A Cleveland Democrat, Turner is a former Cleveland Ward 1 councilwoman and one of two Black Ohio senators representing Cleveland   constituents , among others. She represents Ohio's 25th legislative district and is contemplating a run in 2014 for Ohio  Secretary  of State against controversial Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. Though appointed at times, no Black Democrat has ever been elected to a statewide office in Ohio such as governor, auditor, attorney general, secretary of state or the Ohio Supreme Court. CLEVELAND , Ohio- Elections, of course, create winners and losers. In every contest one candidate party or issue will come out on top. It is rare, however, that  voters  come as close as they did this year to getting the  short  end of the stick. This year we squeaked by thanks to the dedication of local elections professionals and r

From top left Connor Stephens, Brandon Baxter and Douglas White, all former members of Occupy Cleveland that U.S. District Court Judge David Dowd Jr.  of the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday after the trio pleaded guilty earlier this year to a plot to bomb an Ohio bridge between Akron and Cleveland. From bottom Anthony Hayne, 35, (bottom left) who has not been sentenced after pleading guilty and agreeing to help federal prosecutors, and Joshua Safford, 23, whose case is still pending as  he undergoes psychiatric analysis. Shaquille Azir, 39, below, the FBI informant that gave the Occupy Cleveland members sentenced on Tuesday to prison by Federal District Court Judge David Dowd housing, food and drugs to allegedly lure them into using dummy explosives in a plot to blow up an Ohio bridge between Cleveland and Akron earlier this year Occupy Cleveland members, below, march in Cuyahoga County, Ohio again

By Cleveland Urban News.Com Sports Writer Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Browns came back Sunday from a week off with a new attitude in playing against the Dallas Cowboys, a game that went into overtime, though the Browns lost 23-20.  In most of the first nine games of this season the Browns had been starting the game like first half  doesn't count, being out scored going into halftime in practically every game. But against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Cleveland had a 13 point lead at the end of the first half. The Browns shutout Dallas in the first half, and shut them down playing with a purpose, and with intensity not seen from them this year.  The Browns dominated the line of scrimmage offensively and defensively and scored a rare first quarter touchdown after a 10 play 48 yard drive.  Quarterback Brandon Weeden threw a ten yard touchdown to Ben Watson. and then scored on two  field goals from Phil Dawson in the second quarter after drives

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Hts Democrat who last week was elected chairperson of the 43-member Congressional Black Caucus By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON D.C. - Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge( D-11), a Warrensville Hts. Democrat, was elected the 123rd chairperson of the 43-member Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday by a unanimous vote of her peers.  The only Black congressperson from Ohio whose 11th congressional district includes the predominantly Black east side Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County and a part of Akron and staggering parts of its Summit County suburbs, Fudge said that she is honored to have been chosen.  "I am humbled by the vote of confidence of my colleagues who have selected me to serve as the chair of the Congressional Black Ca