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2nd Updated Article: Cuyahoga County Democratic primary results, Fudge wins, Judge Floyd beats Lawson, Goldberg beats Judge Russo, McCormack wins, Kaptur beats Kucinich

Created: Wednesday, 07 March 2012 18:40 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Tuesday's Cuyahoga County Democratic primary brought mostly predictable results, political pundits said. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland lost to Toledo Democrat Marcy Kaptur in the new 9th Congressional District, 11th Congressional...
McGinty wins Democratic primary for county prosecutor, Hall places 2nd, he might face Black Independent candidate Ed Wade in November general election, Chandra is 3rd, Triozzi comes in 4th and is allegedly punched in face at polls, McDonnell 5th

Created: Wednesday, 07 March 2012 08:13 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-With 100 percent of 1082 precincts reporting, former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Tim McGinty likely walked away with the county prosecutor seat on Tues., winning the Democratic primary with 35 percent of the vote, according to...
Activist and CNN Community Hero Laura Cowan questions Cuyahoga County officials after AMBER Alert to find Latasha Jackson and baby daughter faults, both later found murdered

Created: Sunday, 04 March 2012 23:48 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND,Ohio-A CNN community hero and community activist whose baby's daddy is serving a life sentence for holding her hostage in her home garage and raping her in front of her then two children is calling for Cuyahoga County officials to do better with...
Chardon High School gunman T.K. Lane charged with murder, funeral for Demetrius Hewlin, the Black student killed, is Tues., Russell's is Thurs.

Created: Sunday, 04 March 2012 11:20 Author: Kathy

CHARDON, Ohio-Thomas "TJ" Lane (pictured), the 17-year-old student that gunned down three students in the Chardon High School cafeteria and wounded two other students, was charged on Thurs. with three juvenile counts of aggravated murder, two counts of at...
Picket against NAACP President George Forbes postponed until March 13, 5 pm, 2131 Stokes Blvd.

Created: Saturday, 03 March 2012 04:18 Author: Kathy

Cleveland, Ohio-The protest against Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes (pictured) has been postponed until March 13 at 5:00 pm at Cleveland NAACP headquarters, 2131 Stokes Blvd in Cleveland, after a thunder and lightning storm forced community activi...
Third Chardon High School shooting victim that dies is Black student named Demetrius Hewlin, 16, family donates his organs, Black community mourns, City of Chardon is 35 miles east of Cleveland, Oh

Created: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 02:30 Author: Kathy Wray Coleman

CHARDON, Ohio-In spite of a Black population of roughly a half of a percent in the once obscure city of Chardon, Oh., a small town in Geauga County of some 5, 000 people that lies 35 miles east of the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, a ...
Ohio State Rep. Patmon, community activists, want state law for metal detectors like Cleveland schools have in aftermath of Chardon school shooting that left 2 students dead, 3 hospitalized, Gov. Kasich calls for prayer

Created: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:30 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Following the aftermath of a shooting Mon. morning by a craze student in the cafeteria of Chardon High School that left two students dead, three others hospitalized, and a town in grief, a state legislator is calling for metal detectors in...
Press release: Imperial Women, activists to picket Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, March 2, 4:30 pm, Cleveland NAACP offices, 2131 Stokes Blvd, Cleveland, for supporting McGinty for county prosecutor, Forbes' selling out of Blacks, women

Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 05:46 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Grassroots activists will picket Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes at the organization's headquarters at 2131 Stokes Blvd. in Cleveland on Fri., March 2 at 4:30 pm. The say that Forbes will not stand up for Blacks and women on cruci...
Obama for America campaign announces 35 national campaign co-chairs such as actress Eva Longoria, Black Congressional Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland

Created: Friday, 24 February 2012 12:31 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Obama for America campaign announced on Wed. the names of 35 co-chairs for the president's 2012 reelection campaign that include a host of Democratic mayors, governors and U. S. senators, as well as union leaders, former Ohio Gov. Ted ...
Remembering the night Obama was elected president as we celebrate MLK's birthday, a reprint of Coleman's Call and Post Obama victory article of 2008

Created: Monday, 16 January 2012 09:39 Author: Kathy

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As we pause today to celebrate the national holiday of the Jan.15 birthday of slain Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com also pause to remember th...
Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidates Chandra, Hall, McDonnell and Triozzi debate at Imperial Women Coalition Forum, with video of it by Playa T Show

Created: Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:04 Author: Kathy

(News Video Of Aspects Of The Debate By The Playa T Show (www.playatshow.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Hundreds of people packed the Lil' Africa Party Center in Cleveland Thurs. evening to hear Cuyahoga County prosecutor hopefuls Subodh Chandra, Steph...
Community Activists call for fair trial for former Cuyahoga County Democratic Party chairperson Jimmy Dimora as it begins in federal court in Akron

Created: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 15:32 Author: Kathy

AKRON, Ohio-The political corruption and racketeering trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, the previous headstrong, hand-slapping and popular chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, begins today before Federal District...
Rep. Fudge offers olive branch after State Sen. Nina Turner withdraws from congressional race, Turner's colleagues say it strengthens Black community

Created: Friday, 23 December 2011 15:38 Author: Kathy

WASHINGTON, D.C.-State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) on Fri. withdrew from next year's March 6 Democratic primary in a fight for a seat representing the 11th Congressional District against U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) that lost momentum after Fudge won endo...
U.S. House passes bill to terminate voter suppression federal oversight committee, tax funded presidential campaigns, Rep. Fudge, Obama against bill

Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 09:10 Author: Kathy

WASHINGTON, DC-- The Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to pass H.R. 3463 and terminate the Election Assistance Commission that serves as a federal oversight committee that monitors voter suppression practices in the n...
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason files prejudice affidavit against Chief Cuyahoga County Judge Nancy Fuerst seeking her disqualification by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor

Created: Wednesday, 01 June 2011 09:05 Author: Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor CLEVELAND, Ohio-Lame duck Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason (pictured), who did not seek reelection this year and will likely be replaced with former rogue judge Tim McGinty, who won the March Democratic primary for cou...
Black Legislators Patmon, Barnes, others denounce Wild Wild West Bill For Guns In Ohio Bars And Sports Stadiums, say it hurts urban cities like Cleveland

Created: Thursday, 14 April 2011 06:39 Author: Kathy

COLUMBUS, Ohio-(Editors Note: Since this article's debut in April 2011, the Ohio state legislature has passed Senate Bill 17, dubbed the "Wild Wild West Bill", with Gov. John Kasich then signing it into law) A bill that passed the Republican led Ohio S...