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Kobe Bryant, left, and Kyrie Irving Cleveland Cavaliers Coach Byron Scott By Karl Kimbrough, Sportswriter, Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Quicken Loan arena was a buzz Tuesday night. You could tell something special was about to happen. The fans who came to see the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Los Angeles Lakers were not disappointed as the Cavs would win 100 to 94. After the game Cavaliers Coach Bryon Scott said that his team came through because of excellent defensive strategies, though he acknowledged that Kyrie helped too.  “As much as we talk about Kyrie, as much as we talk about some of the other individuals  who had great games, defensively we were great, really, for 48 minutes," said Scott. "We played some of our best defense.”  After three long weeks of absence, Kyrie Irving was back, and he brought his awe inspiring skill set with him. Adding spice to this ma

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton Cleveland NAACP Interim Director Arlene Anderson Community Activist Art McKoy, a founder of the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. Community Activist Khalid Samad, who leads the grassroots group Peace in the Hood  Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a controversial figure and retired Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge who took campaign contributions and was endorsed this year for election for the seat by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. Community activists are investigating his role in the investigation as a potential conflict of interest.  Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both shot at 137 times and gunned down two weeks ago by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from Cleveland that led into East Cleveland, a nearby predominantly Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, which is also majority Black and Ohio's second larges

United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice,  the first African-American to hold the post who earlier today withdrew  from consideration as U. S. secretary of state to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in a letter to President Barack Obama who accepted it and said that Rice is an exemplary public servant subject to unfair attacks by Republican operatives.   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.-In a letter today to President Barack Obama U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice withdrew her name for consideration for United States secretary of state following criticism by Republican lawmakers of her comments on Islam and her description of the  Sept 11 attacks on the U.S.  diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya which  left four dead, including U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. "I am

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), also chair-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell Community Activist Art McKoy, who leads the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. 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 and chairman-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) whose majority Black 11th congressional district includes the east side of Cleveland, its eastern suburbs and a small pocket of Akron and staggering parts of its Summit County suburbs, has called for an independent investigation by the United States Department of Justice and the FBI around the 137-bullets- shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers  two wee

Democratic Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) of Ohio, also the chair-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus      Democratic United States President Barack Obama                                Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner of Ohio (R-8) 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.-President Barack Obama is trying to make due on his campaign promise to stop atrocious tax cuts for the rich to the detriment of middle-class and poor people, meeting with Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (R-8) of Ohio on Sunday to discuss efforts to avoid the "fiscal cliff." And what is the fiscal cliff, and how does it impact federal tax increases, spending cuts and the federal deficit? The fiscal cliff is a term used relative t

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 ) TWINSBURG,Ohio- Timothy Ray Russell, one of two unarmed Black victims gunned down a week and a half ago by a group of anxious White Cleveland police and shot at 137 times after a car chase from Cleveland that ended in tragedy in East Cleveland, was laid to rest on Saturday at the Sanctuary of Praise in Twinsburg, Oh, a Cleveland suburb. Russell, 43, was driving the car that police say backfired in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Nov. 29, causing some 30 police cars to chase him and passenger Malissa Williams, 30, for more than 25 minutes until surrounding the car at Wymore and Terrace Avenues in East Cleveland and putting 137 bullets into it. No gun or gun shell casings were found in or near the car, police said and police union leaders told reporters las

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-A community forum held yesterday at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland and sponsored by the Cleveland Chapter NAACP and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to address community outcries over the 137-bullets-shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers of Black unarmed victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell, neither of whom was in trouble with the law, got heated as family members, community activists and others looked for answers. "We are here to bring calm to the community," said the Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness, senior pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church who is also second vice president of the Cleveland NAACP and the executive director of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

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- Three-year-old Emilliano Terry, whose lifeless body was found in a trash bag in an Oakwood Village landfill last month, was laid to rest today after a private funeral at Pernel Jones and Sons Funeral Home in Cleveland  The boy's mother, 20-year-old Camilia Terry, did not attend the funeral and is in the county jail on a $2 million bond. She was indicted  earlier this week by a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury on 10 counts, including aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse.  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473.

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- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, led now by corporate execute Hilton Smith, also an associate minister of Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, and interim executive director Arlene Anderson, released a press statement earlier this week condemning the 137 bullets-shooting-deaths of Black unarmed victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell by a group of White Cleveland police officers last week. Cleveland Police Union President Jeffrey Follmer has called the unprecedented shootings "a good shooting," a comment that has outraged both community activists and Cleveland NAACP officials.  "The recent high speed chase that started in downtown Cleveland and ended in a hail of deadly gun fire in East Clev

Malissa Williams, 30 and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both gun down last week by Cleveland police in a Bonnie-and-Clyde- type -shooting replete with 137 shots into the car they occupied after a 25 minute car chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland into East Cleveland. Neither were wanted by the law and no gun nor gun shell casings were found in or near the car at issue. The incident has outraged community activists and the Black community, forcing a  Cleveland City Hall community forum today, Dec 6 at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland , 1161 E. 105th St. 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 City Hall Community Relations Board Director Blaine Griffin will host a community forum on the 137 bullets-Bonnie-and-Clyde-type- shooting last week by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks vict

Grace Waite-Jones Grace Waite -Jones and her son Asante Jones 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 memorial service for Grace Waite- Jones, a community activist and former reporter for The Call and Post Newspaper who also fought against apartheid in South Africa,  will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 1 pm at Lucas Memorial Chapel, 9010 Garfield Blvd in Garfield Hts, a suburb of Cleveland. Waite- Jones, 65, died suddenly at her home in Cleveland on Nov. 27.  The cause of her death was unknown at press time.  Waite- Jones and her twin sister Gloria were the youngest of 10 children.  In 1967 Waite Jones wed Richard E. Jones. The couple divorced in 1970. Waite- Jones was employed in different capacities including as a Call and Post reporter in the 1970s and 1990s and briefly as its editor in the late

Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Player Jeremy Pargo Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Player Kyrie Irving By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Are the Cavaliers getting better or worst as an NBA basketball team serving the major metropolitan city of Cleveland since temporarily losing Kyrie Irving to an injury last month? Is Irving's replacement, Jeremy Pargo, effectively stepping up to the plate? Before Kyrie Irving's finger fracture that sideline the point guard who was drafted by Cleveland as a first all around pick in 2011, a year after Lebron James left the team and joined The Miami Heat, the Cavs had won two games and lost eight. Since then, in eight games, they are two and six. After Kyrie's injury most observers probably  looked at the Cavs as a definite high lottery team this year and thought they would be almost unteachable.  Let's face it, entering this season Irving was the