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• Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joins NAACP and announces support of President Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage, but Powell stops short of endorsing Obama for president

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2012 06:36 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State under former president George W. Bush, and the first Black in those roles, last week announced his support of Democratic President Barack ...

• First Lady Michelle Obama visits Cleveland to thank campaign volunteers and hold Obama campaign fundraiser at Progressive Field, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson, elected officials, other Dems attend fundraiser

  Created: Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:55 Author: Kathy

  By Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News.Com Staff Reporter (www.clevelandurbannews.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Slim and poised, First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured), the most photographed first lady in American and world history, thanked a group of approxim...

• Ohio lawmakers remove amendment to budget bill that required drug testing for food stamps, community activists, NAACP officials, State Sen Smith suggest that the bill is racist, sexist, State Sen. Turner had wanted drug tests for lawmakers in return

  Created: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 07:07 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com COLUMBUS, Ohio- The Ohio State Legislature last week removed an amendment added a day earlier to the budget bill that required that Ohioans on food s...

• NAACP passes resolution supporting President Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage, citing the equal protection clause of the14th Amendment, polls show Americans closely divided, most Blacks still oppose it, 31 states ban it, six states allow it

  Created: Sunday, 20 May 2012 08:07 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor MIAMI, Florida-The national NAACP at its meeting yesterday passed a resolution backing President Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage, saying that it is a Civil Right protected under the equal protection clause of the ...

• Updated Breaking News: First Lady Michelle Obama to visit Cleveland on Monday, event is sold out

  Created: Sunday, 20 May 2012 06:09 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com CLEVELAND, Ohio-First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured) will visit Cleveland on Mon, May 21 for an 1:00 pm fundraiser reception at Progressive Field at ...

• Black on Black Crime, Oppressed People's Nation, Carl Stokes Brigade, other activist groups to picket on Sat, May 19, 1pm at Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center in E. Cleveland,13944 Euclid Ave, over death of innocent Black woman shot looking at gunfight

  Created: Friday, 18 May 2012 22:29 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists groups including Black on Black Crime Inc, the Oppressed People's Nation, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party and the Carl Stokes Brigad...

• Cleveland community activist, Imperial Women member stabbed and seriously injured, she fought around the Imperial Ave Murders, the Trayvon Martin case, and against the theft of new born Black babies by Cuyahoga County officials to hand to affluent Whites

  Created: Friday, 18 May 2012 07:20 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com CLEVELAND,Ohio-A community activist and member of the Imperial Women who fought for changes in public policy around the Imperial Ave Murders and atte...

• A one-on-one interview with CNN contributor and TV-One commentator Roland Martin on President Obama, Romney, and whether First Lady Michelle Obama is 'too Black,' latest CBS poll has Obama and Romney in statistical tie

  Created: Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:32 Author: Kathy

  By Johnnette Jernigan Cleveland, Ohio-This is a one-on-one interview with CNN contributor and TV-One commentator Roland Martin (pictured), a nationally known Black political analyst. In this short but engaged interview Martin gives his views on the Demo...

• Cleveland NAACP in quandry since former president George Forbe's resignation on whether to postpone June 23 annual freedom fund dinner

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:05 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.clevelandurbannews.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio-After accepting the resignation of former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes two weeks ago amid co...

• Political pundits, gay, lesbian rights activists from Ohio, Cleveland City Council members, community activists, Civil Rights leaders, Black community members react to President Obama's announcement to support same sex marriage

  Created: Friday, 11 May 2012 07:57 Author: Kathy

  Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.clevelandurbannews.com) WASHINGTON D.C.- President Barack Obama publicly announced his support of same sex marriage last weekend, causing a furo...

• Ohio lawmakers repeal House Bill 194 state election law that stops early voting with new law, new law prevents weekend voting before November presidential election, U.S. Rep. Fudge, activists, angry, demand weekend voting

  Created: Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:12 Author: Kathy

  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (http://www.clevelandurbannews.com)COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Republican controlled Ohio State Legislature passed a state law on Tues. titled Senate Bill 295 ...

• Reprint Of Nov 4, 2011 Article: Mayor Jackson Tells Occupy Cleveland That He, Not Them, Led The Fight Against Corporate Corruption, Since This Article 5 Members of Occupy Cleveland Have Been Indicted For Allegedly Attempting To Blow Up A Cleveland Bridge

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2012 03:57 Author: Kathy

  Editors' note: This is a reprint of an article published by Cleveland Urban News.Com on November 4, 2011. Since that time five members or affiliates of Occupy Cleveland have been indicted and charged with allegedly planning to blow up a Cleveland bridg...

• Louisville falls to Kentucky and Ohio State loses to Kansas in Final Four contest, Its Kentucky and Kansas for the NCAA Championship game

  Created: Monday, 02 April 2012 04:24 Author: Kathy

  NEW ORLEANS, LA-The University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas will square off Mon. night at 9:23 pm for the men's NCAA basketball championship game after Louisville fell to Kentucky on Sat. 69 to 61 and Ohio State University lost to Kansas 64 to...

• Editorial on why the Black community and others should rally around Cleveland Defense Attorney Ed Wade if he makes the ballot as the Independent against Tim McGinty in November for Cuyahoga County prosecutor, Blacks cannot afford one more day of McGinty

  Created: Thursday, 29 March 2012 07:22 Author: Kathy

  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Editorial by Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com Cleveland Criminal  Defense Attorney Edward Wade (pictured) has given the Black community another shot at keeping forme...

• Kentucky State University Choir to perform Sun, March 18 at 4 pm, Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, 8869 Cedar Ave.

  Created: Saturday, 17 March 2012 00:02 Author: Kathy

  CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Kentucky State University Concert Choir (pictured) will perform on Sun., March 18 at 4 pm at Antioch Baptist Church 8869 Cedar Rd in Cleveland, telephone number 216-421-1516. ...

• Connie Schultz to keynote women in journalism luncheon by Akron League of Women Voters, Sat, March 17, Journalist Coleman is a special guest

  Created: Friday, 16 March 2012 07:35 Author: Kathy

  AKRON, Ohio-Pulitzer prize winning journalist Connie Schultz (pictured), a journalist in her own right who won the prestigious honor as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, and the wife of Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, is the keyn...

• Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner and prior county Democratic party chair Jimmy Dimora gives up home after conviction on 33 corruption charges, says Patriot Act hurt him, can the feds craft testimonies for witnesses that cut deals?

  Created: Thursday, 15 March 2012 05:30 Author: Kathy

  AKRON-Ohio-Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora (pictured) reached a court settlement yesterday on what he owes the federal government after his conviction last week on 33 of 34 counts of crimes in office including theft, racketeering and t...

• Joaquin Hicks homecoming party as free man from 61-year prison sentence to be held Wednesday, 7 PM, 14660 Euclid Ave. in East Cleveland at Black on Black Crime headquarters, County Prosecutor Bill Mason under fire by community activists

  Created: Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:28 Author: Kathy

  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Members of Black on Black Crime, The Oppressed People's Nation, The Imperial Women, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, The Carl Stokes Brigade, The Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, Revolution Books, Stop Targeting Oh...

• Press release: Imperial Women, activists postpone March 13 protest against Cleveland NAACP, its president George Forbes, will meet with Interim Executive Director Arlene Anderson, legal counsel James Hardiman first, will protest if refused a meeting

  Created: Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:20 Author: Kathy

  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists disenchanted with Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, including The Imperial Women, family members of the Imperial Ave. murder victims, People for the Imperial Act, The Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, Stop Ta...

• Joaquin Hicks free instead of retrial after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason offers plea deal and time served in case of robbery and murder by teen of Cleveland Clinic employee, and he accepts it

  Created: Saturday, 10 March 2012 07:05 Author: Kathy

  CLEVELAND, Ohio-A Black man that was serving 61 years in prison for allegedly setting up a robbery that led a Black teen to commit an execution style murder of a White male Cleveland Clinic employee and the wounding of another outside of a downtown Clevel...