Pictured from left are actor Danny Glover, U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner, and motivational speaker and scholar Dr. Cornel West

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By Kathy Wray Coleman. associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Faith leaders from  greater Cleveland and Akron, along with U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner, special guests actor Danny Glover and Dr. Cornel West, a scholar and motivational speaker, will gather for a a special interfaith community  breakfast as the Aug. 3 special primary election for the open congressional seat in Ohio's 11th congressional district nears.

Breakfast will be served, buffet style, at 7:30 am with remarks at 8:00 am. The event is free and open to the public, though participants must R.S.V.P. at this link at Ninaturner.com and will, in turn, receive an almost immediate email with the date, time and place of the event.

"As election day nears, we want to use this opportunity to lift Nina Turner up and help inspire others to help us across the finish line," said Kara Turrentine, deputy campaign manager for the Turner campaign said Friday. "Your prayers, thoughts and devotions will help guide the campaign through the final hours."

The Interfaith breakfast event is one of a series of events in the Cleveland and Akron areas leading up to the special primary election on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will travel to Ohio and will join Turner at events in both Akron and Cleveland on Saturday while also headlining a get-out-the-vote rally on Saturday morning in Cleveland alongside other prominent national Democrats and local voices.

The GOTV rally will take place on Sat., July 31 at the Agora Theater on Euclid Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side and will feature Turner, U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Dr. West, and more, including local leaders such as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and state Rep. Juanita Brent of Cleveland.

The rally, which will also feature musical artists and will include community activists, will begin at 11:30 am and will be followed by a 2 pm march to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections at East 29th Street and Euclid Avenue, the Turner campaign said in a press release Thursday. Doors open at 10:30 am.

Jackson is a four term Black mayor of Cleveland and a longtime Turner ally.

A Black Democrat and former Ohio senator who was Sanders' campaign surrogate and who co-chaired his presidential campaign for president last year, Turner 53, is the front runner among 13 candidates competing in an Aug 3 special Democratic primary election for the congressional seat vacated in early March by former congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, who is now the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a member of President Joe Biden's cabinet.

Turner and her campaign team are working to keep her closest opponent, Cuyahoga County Councilwoman and County Democratic Party Chair Shontel Brown, from gaining ground in the multi million dollar congressional race.

Turner has raised some $4.6 million, more money than any of her opponents.

The winner of the crowded Democratic primary in Ohio's 11th congressional district will face the Republican primary winner for a Nov. 2 general election.

Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district includes most of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County and a majority Black pocket of Akron and staggering sections of Akron's Summit County suburbs.

Both Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are Democratic strongholds run primarily by Democrats.

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By Kathy Wray Coleman. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a Black political and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio