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Newly elected Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  COLUMBUS, Ohio -As the 2016 presidential election nears and Ohio remains a pivotal state, David Pepper was elected chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party on Tuesday by the party's executive committee, replacing Chris Redfern, who quit election night following a Republican sweep of statewide offices, including governor, auditor, treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general. The Republicans also control both lawmaking chambers of the Ohio General Assembly, namely the

Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt Cleveland Councilman and Safety Committee Chairman Matt Zone   By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland City Council Safety Committee Chairman Matt Zone, a west side councilman, and Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt,  will host an open-to-the-public meeting on Thursday, Dec 18 a 6 pm at the Harvard Community Services Center on Cleveland's east side around the report issued from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder two and a half weeks ago that found systemic problems in the largely White Cleve

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  From left: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach of the northern district of Ohio, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio- Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice will hold an open-to-the public community meeting at 7 pm on Monday, Dec 15 at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Cleveland around the report issued from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder two weeks ago that found systemic problems in the largely White Cleveland Police Department. Doors open at 6:30 pm, organizers of the eve

From left: Lesley McSpadden , the mother of slain police victim and Ferguson,  Missouri teen Michael Brown, the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Civil Rights icon, MSNBC political host and president of the New York-based National Action Network,  Sabrina Fulton,  the mother of  police victim and  slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, and Samaria Rice, the mother of slain unarmed 12-year-old Cleveland police victim Tamir Rice By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice WASHINGTON, D.C.- A day after a Cuyahoga County coroner formally ruled the police killing of her son a homicide, the  

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) 

Community Activist Dionne Thomas Carmichael holds a protest sign in support of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Black boy gunned down by a White Cleveland cop on Nov 22 at a public park on the city's largely White west side for sporting a toy pellet gun. From left Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, safety  director Michael McGraft and former safety director Martin Flask, now a chief executive assistant to the mayor. Data show that Jackson, who is Black,  protects these White men at any costs, even rehiring them after both retired, and paying them annual salaries in excess of $120,000 a piece. Before recently hiring a Black police chief following calls for diversity in the top brass by community activists,  the Black mayor had no Blacks as law director, safety director, chief prosecutor, chief of police,  and ems commissioner in the predominantly Black major metropolitan city, insensitivity to the Black community supported by Black preachers and an all but defunct Cleveland NAACP

Call & Post Editorial: McGrath and Flask must go for sure, possibly Jackson (Ohio's leading Black print press. International Boxing Promoter Don King, publisher. Keven Heard, managing editor. George L. Forbes, legal counsel. The Call and Post is distributed weekly and published every Wednesday at stands and in stores in the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati). News Desk | 12/10/2014, 9:10 a.m. 45 37 From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio -BELOW IS A RE-PRINT OF A  CALL AND POST NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL THAT IS ALSO ON THE STANDS AND IN STORES THIS WEEK  A fleeting passage of time. Two ticks of a second. Pull out a stop watch. Count “one (1,000) – two (1,000).” Then imagine … BANG! Your child is dead. The b

Johnny Manziel (left) has taken over for Brian Hoyer (right)_as the Browns' starting quarterback. (AP Photo | Don Wright)  (Don Wright)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, a rookie Browns  recruit  also nicknamed ' Mr. Football,' will start his first NFL game Sunday, Dec.14 in the showdown between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, taking over a 7-6 Browns team led by q uarterback  Brian Hoyer. In spite of  breaching  the playoffs, Hoyer was left hanging as head coach Mike Pettine chose to start the more popular Manziel. "This decision is rea

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists, led by the Oppressed People's Nation, the Imperial Women Coalition, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Puncture the Silence and Revolution Books, will rally at 5 pm on Thursday, Dec 11 at the intersection of Superior and Ansel  Roads in Cleveland, near where Tanisha Anderson was killed by Cleveland police some three weeks ago.  Anderson, who was Black,  was slammed to the sidewalk and killed while in custody after police came to the family home for a alleged non-violent mental health disturbance. The family said that they sought an ambulance through a 9-11- call, but police came instead, Police killed Anderson when she objec

Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy who was fatally shot by police speaks during a news conference at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Dec. 8, 2014.  To the left of Samaria Rice is Rice family Attorney Benjamin Crump, who also represents the families of slain Black unarmed teens  Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.  To the right of Samaria Rice is Akron based attorney Walter Madison, who will assist Crump in the controversial case that has caused racial unrest in the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.  Photo by  Aaron Josedczyk—Reuters  www.reuters.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio - Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the family of 12-year-old Cl