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  By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).    Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cavaliers found the recipe for success in recent wins over Chicago and Denver. They beat the nuggets last week, and the Chicago Bulls lost to them the week before. A former Cavaliers head coach who returned this year to lead the team, Mike Brown is all too familiar with the ingredients necessary for a team to propel. Cleveland Cavaliers Coach Mike Brown When an NBA head coach is asked what his basketball team needs to do to have success, he will often mention several areas that can be measured statistically, such as holding a team to a certain shooting percentage defensively and winning the offensive and defensive rebounding battle. Out

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts-The Cleveland Browns lost by one point to the New England Patriots on Sunday, falling 27 to 26 in a heartbreaking loss at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Browns Quarterback Jason Campbell, who is Black, passed for 391 yards and three touchdowns, not enough though to bring home a needed win. The Patriots trailed 6 to 0 at halftime. And with 1:25 left in the third quarter, the Browns led 19-3. But that's when Quarterback Tom Brady stepped up his game, ultimately completing 32 of 52 passes, and two touchdowns. With 61 seconds remaining, the Patriots got two touchdowns, and the Browns could not recover. In spite of the t

Former South African President Nelson Mandela By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com JOHANNESBURG,  South Africa -Nelson Mandela, the first Black South African president and an anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison fighting for democracy and retired from public life nine years ago, died Thursday. He was 95. South African President Jacob Zuma  released a press statement saying that the nation has lost its greatest son and that "h e is now at peace." A state funeral will be held  Zuma said, after calling for mourners to be dignified and respectful.  United States President Barack Obama United States President Barack Obama on Thursday issued a proclamation and dir

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Parma, Ohio police will do sobriety checkpoints tonight, Friday, December 6, 2013, according a departmental press release.  Police will conduct the checkpoints in the 5700 block of Ridge Road from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m, the press release said.  Parma is a majority White suburb of Cleveland, and a city where Blacks traditionally stay away from due to claims of racism and police harassment, not to mention a consent decree the city once had with the Cleveland Chapter NAACP for discriminating in hiring against Blacks seeking to become firefighters there. The U.S. Supreme Court in Michigan Dept of State Police v. Sitz .  determined via a ruling

The Reverend Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Why racism is so omnipotent (powerful) (The article below is reprinted here at  Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  with the expressed permission from Call and Post Newspaper Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper). By the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. (Editors note: The Rev Dr. Otis Moss Jr., a retired former senior pastor of the prominent Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland and also a Civil Rights icon who marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights movement   Moss' comments below come on the heels of the anniversary last week of the 137 shots tragedy where unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed by 13 White Cleveland police officers shooting 137 bullets on Nov 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland, Ohio. Community activists, family members of the victims and o

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Retired Plain Dealer reporter Richard Peery, also a former reporter for the Call and Post Newspaper, is among eight attendees that will receive community service awards on Saturday, Dec 7 at the annual community affair of the Fairfax Business Association (FBA). The event will be held at Fairfax Place in Cleveland, 9014 Cedar Avenue. Tickets are $50. For more information contact Betty Mahone at 216-926-8003. Since retiring Peery, who was also a longtime president of the writer's Guild union at the Plain Dealer, has continued his activism in the community, rallying with community activists and others around violence against women issues in  greater Cleveland, a stand your ground bill in the Ohio State General Assembly, and police brutality. Woodmere Mayor Charles E. Smith The keynote speaker is Charles E. Smith, the mayor of Woodmere Village in Ohio. Other award recipients include Wesley Toles, Jackie Sutton, Shirley Thompson, Tim Willis, Leon

Photo by Community Activist Laura Cowan, a domestic violence and rape survivor and computer analyst at the Cuyahoga County Metropolitan Housing Authority in Cleveland.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman speaks before reporters on Nov. 29, 2013 at Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland, Ohio at the first anniversary rally and vigil for gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, both shot with 137 b ullets heading at them following a Cleveland police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland on Nov. 29, 2012.  Read the story on this event at  www.clevelandurbannews.com . Pictured to the right of Ms. Coleman in the red hat is the mother of Malissa Williams, and in the wheelchair is Malissa Williams' grandmother. Also pictured is Community Activist Ernie Smith, in the yellow shirt, of the Oppressed People's Nation, who led the rally and vigil, both organized by several groups including Black on Blac

By  Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group   (NOMG) Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   on November 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, updated  November 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM Malissa Williams and Tim Russell CLEVELAND, Ohio – The number 137 is standing out to many community groups in Cleveland like few others. That’s the number of shots 13 Cleveland  police officers fired at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams a year ago Friday , ending a 25-minute police chase across Cleveland into neighboring East Cleveland. And 365 days later, some of those  community groups  say they have seen little done to correct “the worst catastrophe in the police department’s history.” ( Read on below or  CLICK THIS LINK HERE TO READ THE FULL PLAIN DEALER STORY AT CLEVELAND.COM AND TO WATCH THE ASSOCIATED VIDEO  ) “Ninety percent of the people we talk to in the community feel that Malissa and Timothy have not gotten any justice,” said Art McKoy, founder of Black On Black Crime. The r

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists groups, victims and victims family members of police brutality, and Black elected officials will host "The First Anniversary of the Cleveland Police 137 Shots and Stop Police Brutality Rally and Candlelight Vigil" on Friday, November 29, 2013, at 5 pm outside of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at 14410 Terrace Road. Friday marks the first anniversary of the gunning down by 13 all non-Black Cleveland cops of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, both of whom were killed on November 29, 2012 following a car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended at Heritage Middle Schoo

  By Karl Kimbrough (pictured), Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).    Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 Kyrie Irving (left) and Lebron James CLEVELAND, Ohio- There are 82 games in every National Basketball Association regular season. Each season though, there are a few games that Cleveland Cavaliers fans circle as special. Two of those special games are when LeBron James visits his old team at Quicken Loans Arena. Wednesday night, one day before the holiday season began, is the day that the NBA scheduled LeBron's first return home this season. And the Cavaliers fell to the Miami Heat last night, 95 to 84. (Editor's note: Lebron James is a native of Akron , Ohio and played for the Cavaliers for seven years