Pictured are Frank Q. Jackson (wearing sweatshirt), his step grandfather, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard), the city's third Black mayor, former state representative and former Cleveland councilman Bill Patmon (wearing black suit), and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley (wearing gray suit)

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

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Frank Q. Jackson, the 22-year-old grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson who was indicted Wednesday on charges of felonious assault, abduction and failure to comply with police relative to a June 10 incident in which the younger Jackson is accused of beating an 18-year old Black woman with a metal truck hitch, surrendered to U.S. marshals late Thursday, an arranged arrest, authorities said.

He is in custody in the Cuyahoga County Jail in downtown Cleveland with his arraignment set for Monday morning at 8:30 am, an arrest warrant issued on Wednesday after the indictment came down from a county grand jury.

Frank Q. Jackson is in actuality the mayor's step grandson and the biological grandson of the mayor's longtime wife, Edwina Jackson, as the mayor has no biological children.

U.S. marshals arrested the younger Jackson at the home of the mayor's mother on the 2100 block of East 38th St. because the media were camping out all night Wednesday in front of the mayor's home, which is blocks away and also in the Central Neighborhood of Cleveland, one of the poorest communities in the country and where Frank Jackson grew-up and later represented as councilman of Ward 5 before becoming mayor

The mayor had allegedly arranged for his grandson to surrender at his home, authorities said, while sources said U.S. marshals acted hurriedly for fear the younger Jackson would make a run for it in an effort to escape arrest.

The younger Jackson resides with the mayor and his wife, sources say.

The mayor has declined to comment on the controversial case, other than to say its nobody's business.

Frank Jackson is traditionally loyal, to his at-will employees, and to his family members, and people like him.

The case was initially investigated by Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police who referred it to city prosecutors who declined to prosecute in spite of witnesses and the alleged victim's statement, and for political reasons, said sources.

County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley a Democrat like Jackson and Jackson's ally, initially refused to seek charges by indictment, O'Malley later bowing to public pressure and saying the case was never referred to his office, even though he does not need a referral to pursue indictments and often times does so independently, particularly against Black people.

The Black community is torn over the issue, some saying the grandson received preferential treatment and needs to be held accountable like other Blacks subject to the county's racist legal system, and others saying the younger Jackson is grown and that parents and grandparents can only do so much in channeling the behavior of their children and grandchildren.

"Nobody can control their grown offspring or grown grandchildren," said former state representative Bill Patmon, a former city councilman who left office last year as a state legislator due to term limits. "All you can do is rear them,  pray for them, and hope they make the right choices in life."

An activist, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said the mayor and his family members have regularly received favorable treatment when it comes to the criminal justice system of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County and that she expects nothing serious to occur in the current case because "Mayor Jackson is the Godfather of Cleveland."

O'Malley's protection of the mayor's grandson and his failure to seek an indictment absent public pressure is an indication that his office picks and chooses which Blacks to get indicted or to not get indicted, said sources, and regardless of the merits of a criminal case, other Blacks indicted in droves, and sometimes in a malicious fashion, public records reveal.

Whether O'Malley will seek a special prosecutor in the case because of his political relationship with the mayor remains to be seen.

Authorities said the younger Jackson has had several brushes with the law and is allegedly violent, the mayor's 16-year-old great grandson also encountering legal troubles that have caught the attention of the mainstream media.

A former Cleveland City Council president, Jackson, 72, is the city's third Black mayor who is serving a historic fourth term in office.

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Pictured is Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose ninth congressional district extends to Cleveland and the longest serving woman in Congress

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-TOLEDO, Ohio- Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose ninth congressional district extends to Cleveland and the longest serving woman in Congress, was hit by a construction backhoe on Tuesday in her hometown of Toledo while driving her car near a construction zone about 11:15 am in the through lane of traffic,

The backhoe’s bucket reportedly swung into the lane reserved for traffic and hit the driver’s-side windshield of Kaptur’s 2005 Ford Five Hundred, crushing parts of the car.

Anderson said the congresswoman was examined at a local hospital and will resume her normal schedule in the morning.

"Congresswoman Kaptur extends thanks to the professional first responders from Toledo police and fire departments who offered immediate assistance," said Anderson.

Greater Cleveland community activists and women's advocates said they are pleased the congresswoman was not seriously injured.

"We are pleased that Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, the longest serving woman in Congress and a fighter in Congress for the nation's most vulnerable, was not seriously injured in the car crash," said Kathy Wray Coleman, a former biology teacher and Black Cleveland activist who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and is an organizer of Women's March Cleveland. "It reminds us that life is precious as we continue our fight for equal opportunity for people across the board, including Blacks, women and children."

Kaptur, 73 and serving her 19th term in Congress, was returning from a local pantry after dropping off vegetables from her garden when the accident occurred.

No one was cited relative to the crash.

Congress has been out on recess since less month and is scheduled to return Sept. 9.

Kaptur is one of four Democratic congress persons from Ohio who also include 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio and whose congressional district includes most of the majority Black areas between Cleveland and Akron and several of Cleveland's eastern suburbs, Joyce Beatty of Columbus, who is Black, and Rep. Tim Ryan, a Youngstown area Democrat and presidential candidate.

, Pictured are Federal  District Court Judge Solomon Oliver, Cleveland Ward 15 Councilman Matt Zone,and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police negligently gunned down in 2014

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-Judge Solomon Oliver Jr., a former chief judge and a seasoned and distinguished Black judge who sits on the federal bench of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland, is the keynote speaker for an open-to-the-public community program on Sept. 17 at the Jerry Sue Thornton Building on the campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Cleveland, an event hosted by Cleveland Ward 15 Councilman Matt Zone that will recognize community partners associated with the Cleveland Community Police Commission, and outgoing members of the commission (For more information contact the Community Police Commission at (216) 505- 5920 or info@clecpc.org).

Oliver, 72,  is a former president Bill Clinton appointee and has been on the federal bench since 1994.

Zone is chair of the safety committee for the 17-member Cleveland City Council and Oliver oversees the court-monitored consent decree for police reforms between the city and the U.S. Department of Justice, a consent decree reached following high profile Cleveland police killings of unarmed Blacks, including Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, whom 13 non- Black Cleveland cops gunned down in 2012 while shooting 137 bullets, and the celebrated police killings in 2014 of Tanisha Anderson and 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

The 13-member Cleveland Police Commission, recommended by a panel and appointed by Mayor Frank Jackson, is mandated under the consent decree and includes members such as former lieutenant governor Lee Fisher, criminal defense attorney Gordon Friedman, Black Shield President Richard Jackson Sr., and Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association.

Jackson is the city's third Black mayor, and is currently serving a historic fourth term.

Led by Executive Director Jason Goddrick, the police commission's role, in part, is to provide input as to police reform measures and to help foster positive police-community relations.

Ten of the 13 commission members, who are volunteers and serve four-year terms, are completing their terms and 10 more will be appointed this year, the deadline for applications of which was Aug 30.

Applicants for the commission must either live or work in the city.

Judge Oliver was born in Bessemer, Alabama.

He received a bachelor of arts degree from College of Wooster in 1969 and a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1972.

He earned a master of arts from Case Western Reserve University in 1974.

From 1972 to 1975, he was an assistant professor at the College of Wooster then clerked for Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1975 to 1976.

Immediately following his clerkship, he worked as an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, becoming the chief of the civil division in 1978, and in 1982, chief of the appellate division.

He left the Department of Justice to enter private practice in Wooster, Ohio from 1982 to 1994 and  continued to serve as a special assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 1982 to 1985. During this time, he also served as a professor of law at the Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Judge Oliver has served with distinction on the federal bench for 25 years. (History on Judge Oliver by wikipedia.com)

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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

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

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, the only two Blacks in the race for president, have made the cut for the Third Democratic Debate set for one night on the campus of Texas Southern in Houston, Texas on Sept. 12, a panel of 10 candidates for the Democratic nomination for president to showcase themselves with former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren the front-runners.

It is the first time that Biden and Warren will face off in a debate.

Democratic National Committee officials announced last week that the Fourth Democratic Debate will be held on Oct. 15 in Ohio, and said specifics on the city and location are forthcoming, Ohio a pivotal state for presidential elections that President  Donald Trump won in 2016 and is struggling to keep red in 2020.

The qualification criteria set by the DNC for the third debate required that a candidate secure at least $130,000 from individual donors as well as poll at no less than two percent in four qualifying polls, the last two debates requiring only that a candidate secure at least 65,000 from 200 donors in 20 different states, and reach at least one percent in three qualifying polls.

The previous 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.

When the 10 Democratic candidates square off in two weeks in Texas it will be the first time that Warren, of Massachusetts, and Biden, a former U.S. senator and vice president under Obama, face off in a debate.

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.

In addition to Biden, Harris, Booker and Warren, the other six candidates who met the criteria to qualify for the third debate are Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Andrew Yang, Beto O'Rourke and Amy Klobuchar, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, a Youngstown area Democrat, not qualifying and saying later he will continue his campaign for president at the grassroots level, the posture most of the candidates that qualified for the two previous debates but were shut out of the upcoming third debate have taken.

Only Biden, Warren and Sanders are polling in double digits, Booker, of New Jersey,  a former Newark mayor, and Harris, a California attorney general turned U.S. senator, polling at two percent, along with Buttigieg, Yang and O'Rourke, and Castro and Klobuchar at one percent or less.

U.S. Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand of New York, who succeeded former senator Hillary Clinton into office after Clinton, in 2009, became former president Obama's secretary of state, suspended her campaign after failing to make the cut for the upcoming third debate, and Rep  Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii cried foul, later telling the Republican-leaning FOX News in a televised interview that the DNC allegedly disregarded certain polls in determining which polls were qualifying polls for the candidates.

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Pictured is Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and former chairof the Congressional Black Caucus who is also a past national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

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

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Led by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge as its grand marshal, the annual 11th Congressional District Community Caucus Parade and Festival will be held Labor Day Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, the parade, which leads to festivities at Luke Easter Park, set to kick off beginning at 10:30 a.m. at East 147th Street and  KInsman Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side.

Sponsored by the 11th Congressional District Community Caucus, the event, which draws thousands each year, comes as the 2020 election nears and Ohio remains a pivotal state, Cleveland a pivotal city with some 385,000 people, most of them Black.

Dignitaries expected at the gathering include elected officials such as Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor who is currently serving a historic fourth term, and candidates for common pleas and other judgeship's, Cuyahoga County Council seats, select suburban city councils and villages of greater Cleveland, and some suburban municipal and village mayors  in the county, the state's second largest of 88 counties.

Last year the race for Ohio's governor brought out Democratic candidate Richard Cordray, Cordray a former Ohio attorney general and former consumer watchdog with the Obama administration who lost last year's gubernatorial election to Gov Mike DeWine, a Republican and former U.S. senator.

Most of the politicians who turn up for the festivities are Democrats.

A few Republicans are regular attendees too, including Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg and some Republican members of County Council.

All 17 members of Cleveland City Council are Democrats, and they regularly show up too.

With the 2020 election less than a year and a half away Fudge, who became better known after last year considering a bid against Rep. Pelosi for House Speaker, will certainly make her policy stances clear by those that come to support her, elected officials, unions, women advocates, activists, and mainly Blacks from her largely Black congressional district.

Always there are Black fraternities and sororities, Fudge a past national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and currently the most powerful Black Democrat in the state of Ohio.

This will be the 48th year of the festivities and the parade will proceed down Kinsman Avenue to Luke Easter Park where participants can expect vendors, food trucks, political speeches, entertainment and the battle of the bands.

It began with a small picnic after Carl B. Stokes was elected mayor in 1967, the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city.

It expanded from a parade to a parade and picnic in 1971 when the late Congressman Louis Stokes, as representative for the then 21st congressional  district, and the first Black congressman from Ohio, instituted the tradition of holding the event on an annual basis.

Stokes, who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, grew up in Cleveland's Outhwaite housing projects with his brother Carl, his only sibling, both of them raised by a single mother after their father Carl died when the congressman was 3.

The one time 21st congressional district turned the 11th congressional district, a district that  largely includes the majority Black east side of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, and a Black pocket of Akron and staggering suburbs of neighboring Summit County.

Both Cuyahoga County and Summit County are Democratic strongholds, and Black top echelon elected officials and state legislators of those counties are Democrats.

Republicans, however, hold all of the statewide offices in Ohio, aside from two seats on the Ohio Supreme Court, including the elected offices of governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, and state auditor.

The annual parade was started by the Stokes brothers, George Forbes, a part time Cleveland attorney, former longtime city council president and former longtime president of the Cleveland NAACP, and the late Arnold Pinkney of greater Cleveland, a political strategist who ran the first of Jackson's two unsuccessful campaigns for president.

It came about to showcase the political power of Blacks in greater Cleveland, and to provide a forum for candidates to campaign and lobby voters, mainly Democrats.

The event has attracted thousands of attendees and Democratic presidential candidates such as the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr, in 1984,  John Kerry in 2004, and former first lady and prior secretary of Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton then making her second bid for president, though unsuccessfully.

The late congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first Black female congressperson from Ohio who succeeded Congressman Stokes after his retirement in 1998, continued the rich tradition by also making it the annual 11th Congressional District Labor Day Parade and Festival.

A former Warrensville heights mayor, Fudge replaced Tubbs Jones after her untimely death in 2008 at the age of 58, and has since been repeatedly reelected by voters of the 11th congressional district.

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