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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Stacey Abrams, the Black Democrat who lost a close race for governor of Georgia last year and the chosen one to deliver the Democratic response to President Trump's January 2019 State of the Union address, will speak on voting rights in Cleveland, Sat. Oct 19, 2019 at 4:30 pm at the union headquarters of SEIU at 1771 East 30th St. on the city's largely Black east side.
The event is sponsored by the Ohio Democratic Party in cooperation with SEIU Local 1199 and is free and open to the public.
Registration is at 3:30 pm.
Abrams' visit comes as the 2020 election years and days after the Fourth Democratic Debate on Oct. 15 in suburban Columbus.
The Black vote fail 7 percent from 2012 to 2016, and some 4 million Black voters who championed Barack Obama for president in 2008 and reelection in 2012 stayed home in 2016 when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost a close general election to current president Donald Trump, a Republican.
Rep.Marcia Fudge will have a voting rights with Abrams and the featured speaker later in the day on Oct. 19.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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