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Indefinite suspension of Cleveland Browns Black defensive end Myles Garrett upheld and called harsh as claims of racism arise, Garrett saying Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph allegedly made a racial slur at him before he snatched off Rudolph's helmet

23 November 2019

Kathy

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-The NFL announced Thursday that NFL appeals hearing officer James Thrash has upheld all discipline leveled against Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett (pictured) following a brawl at Thursday's game at FirstEnergy Stadium between the Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers, which the Browns won 21-7.

The league upheld Garrett's indefinite suspension from the league and a $45,623 fine, Garrett, 23, and his lawyers saying the punishment is too harsh, and is likely racist since Garrett allegedly reacted following an alleged racial slur not on record.

Opinions vary on Garrett's historic punishment, some saying the sport itself promotes violence and that it is hypocritical to hand the Black NFL ballplayer such a harsh punishment.

A former college football player at Texas A&M and a first round draft pick for the Browns in 2017, Garrett says Mason Rudolph directed a racial slur at him before he pulled off the Steelers' quarterback's helmet and hit him on the head with it at Thursday's game, the impetus for his indefinite suspension from the league.

While Rudolph, who is White, said he accepts some responsibility for his actions during the brawl, he denies making a racial slur toward Garrett.

Garrett's suspension brings any hopes of playing in the playoffs to a halt, if the Browns reach the playoffs.

With a 4-6 regular season record, the Browns have six more games and would need to win five of those AFC games and compile a 9-7 record in order to advance to the playoffs.

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.

Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2021 02:20

12-year-old Tamir Rice's murder by Cleveland police anniversary approaches, ACLU, his mother offering booklet to Black kids to protect them from murder by White cops...U.S. attorney general makes political stop in Cleveland for Trump

21 November 2019

Kathy

Pictured are 12-year-old Tamir Rice, his mother, Samaria Rice, and U.S. Attorney General William Barr

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio–As the fifth-year anniversary of the Cleveland police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice approaches on Nov. 22, Rice's mother, Samara Rice, and the Ohio ACLU have compiled an eight-page booklet in his memory to help other Black kids like Tamir stay safe in the midst of excessive force activities by Cleveland and other police targeted at the Black community, a national problem in largely Black major American cities across the country.

The guide, dubbed the 'Tamir Rice Safety Handbook' can be downloaded at the ACLU’s website and warns children to comply with police directives, and not to panic, among other recommendations.

Rice also remembered her son on the anniversary-week of his death with a series of events, including an evening of the arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Nov 20, an event featuring a conversation between internationally renowned artist Theaster Gates and journalist and activist Bakari Kitwana

Police were summoned to the Cudell Park and Recreation Center on the city's largely White west side on Nov. 22, 2014 following a foiled 9-1-1 call to police dispatchers that a child was carrying a likely toy gun.

Samara Rice has also established the Tamir Rice Foundation, and said she intends to do everything possible to protect other kids from what her son was subjected to by police, the city settling a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family in 2016 for $6 million.

"Maybe I could go across the country to save some kids," the elder Rice told reporters on Wednesday.

Samara Rice said she is still grief-stricken and that "it does not get easier as the years go by."

The White Cleveland cop that gunned down Tamir Rice, rookie Timothy Loehmann, was fired , and his partner, also a White policeman, was handed a 10-day suspension, community activists applauding the firing of the killer cop and expressing dismay over the leniency in discipline of what they say is his partner in crime.

Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, arrived at the scene and zoomed in on Tamir in less than two seconds, Garmback at the wheel of the police cruiser, precautionary action be damned.

Loehmann, however, was not fired for killing Tamir but for lying on his job application about discipline in another city as a former cop

Ongoing protests erupted nationally and locally in 2014 following the shooting death of Rice, and racial unrest continues to mount against a largely White police department now under a consent decree for police reforms between the city and the U.S. Department of Justice, a consent decree that follows several questionable Cleveland police killings of Blacks over the years, including Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012, and Tanisha Anderson in 2014.

The Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, led by outspoken union head Jeff Follmer, has been staunchly behind Loehmann and Garmback, Follmer saying the kid pulled the toy gun when police arrived, though no such evidence exist to prove such a claim.

A 9-1-1 dispatcher that answered the call from a bystander who allegedly said Tamir was pointing a likely toy gun when police anxiously arrived was suspended for eight days and an off-duty cop at the scene, for two days.

Neither the dispatcher nor the off-duty cop did the killing and both were disciplined by Police Chief Calvin Williams, who is Black, Constance Hollinger the dispatcher at issue, and William Cunningham, the off duty cop just simply on the premises, but allegedly without permission, city officials have said.

Loehmann and Garmback were not indicted on criminal charges with the help of since ousted Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost reelection in 2016 to fellow Democrat and current County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley, his ouster of which came in connection with community outcries relative to his pro-cop disposition in the Rice killing and other cop killings.

Samaria Rice has been in the forefront of community demands that the police involved in her son's killing face criminal proceedings, but to no avail

Follmer and his Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association are President Donald Trump supporters, the police union endorsing Trump for his first bid for president, which was met with criticism from the Cleveland NAACP, Black leaders, and grassroots community activists, among others.

Trump has sent in his attorney general, William Barr, to meet with prosecutors, and Police Chief Williams and select cops for a roundtable discussion with law enforcement from across Northeast Ohio in Cleveland on Nov. 21, a political gesture as the 2020 presidential election nears and the president faces a pending impeachment inquiry, sources said.

Follmer has been criticized for backing wrongdoing fellow cops no matter what they do, some police union members speaking at a pro-Trump rally in downtown Cleveland since Trump became president, one of several protests held in a dozen cities across Ohio that day that garnered counter protests in Cleveland and elsewhere.

Last Updated on Friday, 22 November 2019 05:49

Feud erupts at 5th Democratic Debate in Atlanta between Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard over Hillary Clinton and Gabbard's feud with Clinton, none of the debate moderators Black in Black Atlanta, and all of them female..The 6th debate is in Los Angeles

21 November 2019

Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-ATLANTA, Georgia-Ten 2020 Democratic presidential candidates debated Wednesday night in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia expected to be a key battleground state for the 2020 presidential election with 47 percent of its registered voters statewide Black. (Editor's' note: The 6th Democratic Debate, the final debate of 2019 for the Dems, will be held on Dec. 19 at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles).

More than 325,000 people have signed up to vote in Georgia since the midterm elections, some 45 percent of them minority, and most of them Black.

Incumbent President Donald Trump, who defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 to win the presidency in 2016,is fighting, he and his Republican comrades, to keep control of the White house, the Republicans also controlling the U.S. Senate, though Democrats regained control of the House via last year's midterm elections.

Candidates meeting the polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee to debate Tuesday were former vice president Joe Biden, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

Harris, a California attorney general turned U.S. senator, and Booker, a former Newark mayor, are the only Blacks in the race, whether Republican or Democratic.

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke and former HUD secretary Julián Castro, who both participated in all of the other debates, including the fourth debate, failed to meet the qualifications criteria and have both suspended their presidential campaigns.

Only Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg and front-runner Biden are polling in double digits nationally, the six candidates on stage last night, including Harris and Booker, polling at five percent or less nationwide.

Hosted by MSNBC and the Washington Post, Tuesday's debate in Atlanta, a largely Black major American city, went on for just over two hours with debate issues ranging from the pending impeachment inquiry in the House against President Trump, to taxes, the Affordable Care Act, campaign finance laws, foreign policy, childcare and paid family leave and the Palestinian Israeli conflict.

Also at issue, among others, were wars abroad, immigration and criminal justice reforms, climate change, voting rights, gun violence, disparities between Black women and their White counterparts, the MeTo Movement, and the Violence Against Women Act, women, like Black people, a key voting bloc for the 2020 election.

The four debate moderators were all women, with none of them Black in Black Atlanta.

The debate started on the issues of taxes and tax cuts, and health care, Booker saying he supports a $15 minimum wage and Warren saying, like Booker, that Black women, are disproportionately impacted by a the current tax breaks afforded to rich AmericanS most of them White men.

Warren said the middle class and poor people pay half of the taxes.

Sen Sanders called the nation's current system of healthcare cruel and dysfunctional,' while Biden said he supports building Obamacare and then talked on what he called "my plan."

The feud between Rep Gabbard and Clinton was addressed, Clinton previously branding Gabbard, who announced she will not seek reelection to her congressional seat next year, a Republican operative set to run a third party campaign in an effort to undermine Democrats, a claim Gabbard, who chances to win reelection in congress diminished in the midst of time away from the state to campaign for president, says is ludicrous.

Asked specifically about the issue, Gabbard surprisingly said her own Democratic Party is undermining America.

"Our Democratic Party is unfortunately not the party that is of by and for the people," said Gabbard. "It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in Washington represented by Hillary Clinton, and others [relative to] foreign policy, [and] by the military industrial complex and other greedy corporate interests."

The former Democratic National Committee vice president who served in the medical unit for the National Guard in combat in Iraq in 2004-2005 before getting elected to Congress in 2012 said both Republicans and Democrats have slighted Americans on foreign policy matters, and hat they have put American men and women in harm's way with unnecessary wars.

Gabbard described what she says is a "Bush-Trump-Clinton foreign policy doctrine."

Harris returned fire and said Gabbard is nothing but a pro-President Trump turncoat who spent "four years full time on Fox News criticizing Barack Obama."

She said Gabbard has acted full time during the campaign in "criticizing the Democratic Party."

The nation's first Black president, Obama was elected in 2008 served two terms as president and Biden two terms with Obama sa vice president.

Obama was succeeded into office by Trump in 2017.

The unprecedented feud between the three women, Gabbard, Harris and Clinton, is indicative of how women have gained notoriety in national politics over the years, decades ago women traditionally disregarded as potential American presidents, and they were certainly not the highlight of any major party presidential debate.

Harris also took on disparities between Black women and their White counterparts, and gun violence as it relates to the black community.

"Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth in America," said Harris, the only Black woman in the race for president."The son's of Black women will die because of gun violence than any other cause of death."

Harris said Black women make 61 cents on the dollar compared to their White women.

She said the Democratic Party must mirror what Obama did in campaigning for president to win, and that "justice is on the ballot in 2020."

On the issue of voting, Booker, the only Black male in the race for president said, Blacks are pissed off, the Black vote falling seven percentage points from 2012 when Obama won reelection to 2016 when Hillary Clinton narrowly lost the presidency to Trump.

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.

Last Updated on Friday, 22 November 2019 05:29

Black U.S. Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker make the cut for the 5th Democratic Debate in Atlanta and no more than 2 Blacks have been on a major presidential debate stage at once in America.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

18 November 2019

Kathy

Pictured are U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), a former California attorney general and the only Black female candidate in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America, and U.S. Senator Cory Booker(D-NJ) of New Jersey, a former Newark mayor and the only Black male in the race

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, ATLANTA, Georgia- U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, the only Blacks in the race for president, are among the 10 Democratic presidential candidates who have made the cut for Fifth Democratic Debate on Wed., Nov. 20 in Atlanta at 9pm EST, Georgia, a much anticipated debate that will be hosted by MSNBC and the Washington Post.

The debate comes as the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election nears and Democrats work to unseat President Donald Trump from the White house.

A public impeachment inquiry began last week against the embattled Republican president, a billionaire real estate mogul who narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the presidency in 2016.

Other candidates meeting the polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee to debate this week in Georgia are former vice president Joe Biden, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

The Fourth Democratic Debate was held in mid-October at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, a Columbus suburb, and some 12 candidates qualified, including all of the aforementioned.

Ohio remains a pivotal state for presidential elections.

Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg are the national front runners as the 2020 election nears, Buttigieg the front- runner for the Iowa Caucuses, though Iowa is 91 percent White.

Harris and Booker also qualified for the other four debates.

The third debate was held the campus of Texas Southern in Houston

The first two debates, the first in Miami and the second in Detroit, had 20 candidates for each debate, both spread out over two nights, some 50 million television viewers tuning in for the two-night first debate in Miami that was sponsored by NBC and MSNBC, with half the television viewers nationwide watching the second two-night debate in Detroit, CNN the sponsor of the second debate.

Historically speaking, there has never been more than two Black candidates for the Democratic nomination for president on a national debate stage at one time, the last time in 2004 when former U.S. senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and of whom lost reelection after three terms in Congress, and the Rev Al Sharpton were candidates.

Other Black candidates for the Democratic nomination over the years include the late and former New York congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black major party candidate for president, former Rep. Barbara Jordan, also deceased and the first Black elected to the Texas senate and the first Black southern Black woman elected to Congress, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

Only one Black, among both Democrats and Republicans, has reached the status of a presidential nominee of a major American political party, that being two-term former president Barack Obama, a Democrat and the nation's first Black president.

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.

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:13

Cleveland schools officials back off of closing Collinwood High School following claims of racism and the targeting of Black neighborhoods.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

16 November 2019

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard) and Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric GordonClevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.

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

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon has backed off of a recommendation to school board members that Collinwood High School on the city's majority Black east side be closed following community outcrises and claims of racism against Black children and their families leveled by community activists and State School Board member Meryl Johnson, a retired Cleveland schools teacher and former Cleveland Teachers Union official.

They were also up against outspoken Ward 8 Councilman Mike Polensek, who organized his constituents in Collinwood against closing the nearly all Black high school in his east side ward.

In recent weeks Gordon proposed the closings of historic public schools in Cleveland, Oh, a largely Black major American city, including Collinwood, Jane Addams and Martin Luther King Jr high schools and some four k-8 schools, namely Case, Iowa Maple, Michael R. White and Willow, practically all of them located on the city's largely Black east side.

The school board is expected to vote on Gordon's proposal at its meeting on Nov. 18.

Cleveland voters approved a $200 million bond issue for school construction in 2014.

Gordon says the school district will close some schools, merge others, and also rebuild build new one's such as a new John F. Kennedy High School on the city's east side.

More than 11 schools will be impacted by the closing and merging of schools districtwide.

Gordon's proposal also calls for Lincoln West High School on the city's west side to be rebuilt like John Marshall, also a west side school.

The school closings, said Gordon, are set to impact some 5,000 students.

District parents have sounded off against the school closings at school board meetings and during recent community meetings at Collinwood and Glenville.

Some 300 MLK students, MLK located in the ward of Councilman Basheer Jones, or Ward 7, will be sent to Glenville in the historic Glenville neighborhood, also a Black east side school like Collinwood and MLK.

Jane Addams Business Careers Center students will be sent to East Technical High School on the city's east side as well as students from Washington Park Studies school, also an east side high school.

Community activists were upset over the targeting of the Black community relative to school closings.

"It is always the east side that takes a hit and they make up excuses for the white schools to stay open on the west side," said educational activist Donna Walker -Brown, a 1980 Collinwood High School graduate who leads the Urban Educational Justice League. "Mayoral control has ruined the school system and it has been ruined since they got rid of the elected school board."

The slated school closings are part of a comprehensive reduction and reorganization plan.

Gordon did not say, with any specifics, what would happen to the school level administrators affected by the reorganization plan and school closings, in particular principals and assistant principals, or whether Black administrators will disproportionately lose their administrative positions, those who are laid-off as administrators and tenured of whom can, by state law, revert back to the classroom.

School district officials say more than 7,000 unused classroom seats on the city's east side and 700 on the west side are costly and the monies can be put to better use such as for school renovations and repairs, and for operating costs.

The district currently has some 68 kindergarten- eighth grade schools and 38 high schools, Gordon disputing that number and saying there are some 170 schools.

Since 1998 the Cleveland schools, which then had a population of some 77,000 students, have been under mayoral control per state law, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson of whom, by law, appoints the school board that will act on Gordon's school closings recommendations, Gordon a White man who leads a largely Black school district, and who has managed to escape controversy since he was appointed CEO in 2011.

The school board has nine members, four of them Black, and is led by board chairwoman Anne E. Bingham, a corporate banker who is White and resides on the city's largely White west side where the school closings are not largely impacted.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 November 2019 06:16

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur meets with former Poland president Lech Walesa in D.C. relative to the 30th-year anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Walesa also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, union organizer, and former leader of the Solidarity Movement

16 November 2019

Kathy

Pictured are U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose 9th congressional district extends to Cleveland, and former Poland president Lech Walsea, also the former leader of the Solidarity Movement, a Polish trade union and anti-Soviet social movement

WASHINGTON, DC – Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose 9th congressional district extends to Cleveland, joined members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the National Endowment for Democracy on Tuesday to honor the former Poland president Lech Walsea, who was president of Poland from 1990-1995.

He also co-founded the Solidarity Movement in 1990, a polish non-governmental trade union and anti-Soviet social movement.

Poland's communist government attempted to destroy the union by instituting martial law in 1981, followed by several years of political repression, but in the end was forced into negotiation.

A passionate union organizer, Walsea had been arrested several times for his participation in dissent rallies spearheaded by his union and its supporters.

The Washington D.C. event with Kaptur that Walsea attended on Tuesday was also to reflect on and discuss Democratic achievements in Congress and elsewhere as well as challenges facing Poland going forward.

It corresponded with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Poland’s Independence Day, the Berlin Wall a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 and cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.

Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on Aug 13, 1961.

“It is such a privilege to join the National Endowment for Democracy for this momentous celebration honoring the former president of Poland, statesman, dissident, union organizer, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa,” said Rep. Kaptur during her floor speech to Congress on Tuesday. “This week, the world celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall and Poland’s Independence Day.

The federal lawmaker said she was ecstatic to celebrate the "historic occasion with President Walesa, whose leadership of the Solidarity Worker Movement played a central role in bringing democracy to millions in Central and Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

And she elaborated on her Polish heritage.

“As an American of Polish heritage, who represents thousands of Polish Americans, I am keenly aware of Poland’s heroic struggle toward liberty," the congresswoman said. "I was proud to celebrate with the Polish people their liberation from the Soviet empire."

In Congress, Kaptur has fought to strengthen U.S., Poland relations and advance legislation to carry on Poland’s steady progress, including the Enterprise Funds, increased development assistance, civil society exchanges, and inclusion in the defense security perimeter of free nations.

“As we look to counter increased Russian influence and democratic erosion, we must look to the inspiration and example of President Walesa’s leadership to map the way forward,'" said Kaptur. " We must increase U.S. funding and exchanges for civil society organizations on the front lines of today’s struggle for liberty. "

The congresswoman said the fall of the Berlin Wall serves as a reminder to the "testament to what’s possible when we join our democratic allies with a shared vision for the world — one of liberty, justice, and equality for all.”

Earlier this year, Rep. Kaptur, the longest serving woman in the United States Congress, senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Co-Chair of the Congressional Poland Caucus, introduced the “Paweł Adamowicz Democratic Leadership Exchange Act of 2019”, which would establish increased democratic exchange between the United States and Poland.

The program would grant elected officials and civil society leaders from both countries the opportunity to travel to the partner nation for 1-2 weeks, in order to participate in educational conferences and gain important leadership skills, and build transatlantic networks between the two NATO allies.

Kaptur said that these valuable experiences would further strengthen the historic partnership between the U.S. and Poland and equip participants with the relationships and experience necessary to enrich their home country’s democratic institutions upon their return home. Gdansk, Poland is the sister-city to Cleveland, Ohio.

Watch: Rep. Kaptur Floor Speech Honoring the 30th Anniver

sary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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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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