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President Trump makes first weekly address and sends transcript of his speech via a press release to Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader that will have access to teleconference interviews with White House officials like with Obama

28 January 2017

Kathy

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

By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who 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. (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.5 million views).

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST WEEKLY ADDRESS AT THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN ONLINE NEWS BLOG.COM, OHIO'S MOST READ BLACK NEWS BLOG

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, WASHINGTON, D.C.-Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, received a White House press release on Jan. 28 as to the first weekly address of President Donald J. Trump (pictured) and we have published it to test the grounds of support, or the lack thereof, in the Black community and otherwise from our news venues and social media outlets out of Cleveland, Ohio USA

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST WEEKLY ADDRESS AT THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN ONLINE NEWS BLOG.COM, OHIO'S MOST READ BLACK NEWS BLOG

The President’s Weekly Address aired today, Jan 28, on Facebook Live at 12:45 PM EST. Visit:https://www.facebook.com/POTUS

My fellow Americans,

One week ago, our administration assumed the enormous responsibilities that you, the American People, have placed in us.

There is much work to do in the days ahead, but I wanted to give you an update on what we have accomplished already.

In my first few days as your President, I’ve met with the leaders of some of our nation’s top manufacturing companies and labor unions.

My message was clear: we want to make things in America, and we want to use American workers.

Since my election, many companies have announced they are no longer moving jobs out of our country but are instead keeping and creating jobs right here in America.

Every day, we are fulfilling the promise we made to the American People. Here are just a few of the executive actions that I have taken in the last few days –

--An order to prepare for repealing and replacing Obamacare, it’s about time.

--The withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership so that we can negotiate one-on-one deals that protect American workers. That would have been a disastrous deal for our workers.

--An order to begin construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, following a renegotiation of terms, with a requirement that pipelines installed in America be built with American steel and manufactured here.

--A directive to expedite permits for new infrastructure and new manufacturing plants.

--An order to immediately begin the border wall and to crack down on sanctuary cities. They are not safe, we have to take care of that horrible situation.

This administration has hit the ground running at a record pace, everybody is talking about it. We are doing it with speed and we are doing it with intelligence and we will never, ever stop fighting on behalf of the American People.

God bless you, and God Bless America.

Donald J. Trump, United States president

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

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2017 23:47

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to take community questions in an open meeting Thursday, January 26, 2017 from 7 pm-8:30 pm at the Harvard Community Services Center in Ward 1 as speculation on whether he will seek reelection grows....By Kathy Wray Coleman

26 January 2017

Kathy

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 3.5 million views on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

Cleveland Urban News.Com, via editor Kathy Wray Coleman, interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, OHIO- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (pictured), the city's three-term Black mayor who has been moot on whether he will seek an historic fourth term this year, will take questions form the Ward 1 community and others at a community meeting on Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 from 7:00-8:30 pm at the Harvard Community Services Center on the city's east side at 18240 Harvard Avenue.

Both Elaine Gohlstin, president and CEO of the Harvard Community Services Center, and Ward 1 Precinct Committeemen James Richards, also the assistant to Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt and who will chair the meeting, confirmed the engagement that is open to the public.

"We invited the mayor to speak this evening and he accepted," said Richards.

Community activists are among those expected to attend, though Richards said that Ward 1 residents will be given priority to ask questions.

A spokesperson for the Harvard Community Services Center said the mayor, a former city council president, "will take all questions that are reasonable and within the guidelines"

To date prominent people that have taken out petitions to run for mayor this year of the largely Black major American city include Ward 1 Councilman Jeff Johnson, who is Black and says he will run regardless of whether Jackson runs.

Other perspective well-known candidates for mayor include former East Cleveland mayor Eric Brewer, Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, Cleveland NAACP President Michael Newlson Sr., and state Rep. Bill Patmon, a former city councilman.

All of them are Black.

According to an article published on Jan. 16 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper at its online news venue of Cleveland.com , the less well- known candidates for mayor that have pulled petitions from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections are as follows:

Brian S. Costa - A Cleveland man by the same name lists on his Facebook page that he is an officer with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
Angela Y. Davis - A Cleveland woman by the same name lists on her Facebook page that she works for the U.S. Postal Service.
Barbara A. DeBerry - A Cleveland-area woman named Barbara DeBerry lists on LinkedIn that she is founder incorporator and proposal writer for W.H. a. T International Enterprises and a former election official with the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Ja'Ovvoni Garrison - His Facebook page introduces him as a "Future Mayor for the City of Cleveland." Cleveland.com reported on Jan. 7, 2017 that Garrison is a former Slavic Village Development community organizer who is using his skateboarding expertise to attract grant money to provide free skateboards and lessons to low-income kids.
Renee Saunders - A Cleveland-area woman by the same name is listed on LinkedIn as a student at Cleveland State University.
Landry M. Simmons Jr. - A Landry M. Simmons lists himself on Facebook as a Strongsville resident and a sales consultant for Auto World USA.

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

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:29

Denzel Washington and Ruth Negga nominated for Oscars for best actor with four other Blacks, Viola Davis, Octavia Spenser, Naomi Harris and Mahershala Ali, nominated for best supporting actress or actor, and Barry Jenkins nominated for best director

25 January 2017

Kathy

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - The nominations for the 89^th Academy Awards are out with "Fence s," directed by Denzel Washington, a best actor nominee, getting the nomination, among others for best picture, as did "Hidden Figures."

Ruth Negga is the lone Black woman nominated for best actress for her role in the film "Loving,", a real-life drama which "tells the story of Richard Loving (Joel Eggerton) and his wife Mildred (Megga) , an interracial couple in Virginia who went all the way to the Supreme Court to fight their right to be married in the 60s."

Washington, however, was snubbed for a best director nominee for "Fences," an adaptation from the 1983 Pulitzer Prize -winning play by playwright August Wilson about an African-American married- father trying to raise his son in the 1950s.

In short, Blacks garnered six Oscar nominations in the acting categories.

Viola Davis was nominated for best supporting actress for "Fences," Naomi Harris for 'Moonlight, and Octavia Spenser for the critically acclaimed "Hidden Figures," which also stars Kevin Costner, another Oscar snub.

Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Spenser) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), three black women who played crucial roles when NASA launched an American into orbit for the first time.

Harris, who is also Black, got the Oscar nomination nod for best supporting actress in "Moonlight," a drama-film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, which chronicles the life of a Chiron (played by Alex Hibbert,12), from childhood to adulthood in the ghettos of Miami while dealing with a drug-addicted mother (Harris).

Mahershala Ali, another Black actor, is nominated for best supporting actor for his role in "Moonlight" as a crack dealer named Juan who takes Chiron under his wing.

Moonlight, with Brad Pitt as its executive producer, brought best director and best screenplay nominations for Jenkins, who is Black, has been deemed by critics as "a masterful exploration of African-American masculinity." It has received eight nominations in totality, including best director, best picture and best screenplay.

This year's nominees are a departure from last year, and the year prior, when the Academy Awards shut out Black actors and actresses altogether, causing actor Will Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinket- Smith, among others, to boycott the event as well as an analysis by the academy on racial disparities relative to its nominations.

The Academy Awards, which covers movies released in 2016, will air live on Feb, 26 on ABC.

"La La Land" earned 14 nominations with its stars, Ryan Gosling and Emma Thompson, both nominated for best actor and best actress respectively. It ties the record for the most nominations by a single film.

.For the full list of nominees is as Click here

Last Updated on Monday, 27 February 2017 12:16

Anti Jeff Sessions for U.S .attorney general Cleveland rally: Activist groups to rally from 11 am-1 pm in Cleveland today, January 24, 2017, against Jeff Sessions becoming U.S. attorney general near the Cleveland office of U.S. Senator Rob Portman

24 January 2017

Kathy

Pictured are U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (wearing light grey suit and a red tie) of Alabama, a Republican and the controversial nominee of President Donald Trump for U.S. attorney general, National NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks, who is Black, former Ohio governor Ted Strickland (wearing dark blue suit), who lost a bid last year for the U.S. Senate against U.S. Sen Rob Portman, a Cincinnati Republican, and Portman (wearing dark grey suit and red tie), a junior Republican senator who is neck and neck with Strickland for the November election(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Civil Rights groups and community activists will rally from 11 am-1 pm in Cleveland near the office of Republican U.S. Sen Rob Portman against The confirmation of controversial Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. attorney general.

The event, a protest near Portman's Cleveland district office at the federal building on East 9th Street in downtown Cleveland, is sponsored by the Ohio Revolution group and the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus.

Portman is a center-Right Republican born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he still lives today, when not in Washington, D.C.

He won reelection in November favorably over former Ohio governor Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee.

Nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed outgoing attorney general Loretta Lynch, the nation's first Black female attorney general who worked under former President Barack Obama, the country's first Black president, Sessions' nomination has Civil Rights organizations across the country up in arms, including the NAACP, the nation's most renown Civil Rights organization.

The NAACP is upset over Sessions' allegedly hostile attitude toward Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a Supreme Court decision in 2013.

National NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks and five other NAACP members were arrested following a sit-in on Jan 3 at the Mobile, Alabama office of Sessions, who says he has supported criminal justice reforms and a few other Civil Rights initiatives as a federal lawmaker.

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

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:30

Cleveland Housing Court Judge Ray Pianka dies suddenly at 65, Mayor Jackson, others offer condolences, including activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, whose deceased husband, a former Cleveland cop, worked under Pianka as a housing court bailiff

22 January 2017

Kathy

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Raymond L. Pianka (pictured) is dead at 65, and his death was sudden and has taken the community by surprise.

The judge's family has asked for privacy, and funeral arrangements are pending.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, a former city council president who served with Pianka, also a former councilman, on city council, offered condolences on behalf of the city, calling Pianka "a tireless advocate for his community."

Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, an east side city lawmaker contemplating a run for mayor this year, tweeted that Pianka was "a longtime friend."

Activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, the surviving spouse of former Cleveland cop Wesley Maclin Jr, who was employed later as a housing court deputy bailiff for Pianka until his death in 2004 and started the first Cleveland housing court union for bailiff's with the judge's support, was caught off guard.

Coleman says she is shocked and that Pianka was especially sensitive and caring when she lost her husband as a relatively young woman, even attending funeral services after closing the court for the morning.

"We offer condolences to the Pianka family," said Coleman. "May the judge rest in peace."

Pianka reportedly died Sunday morning in the property behind his home on Ellen Avenue, though details are sketchy.

Judge Pianka was a former west side Cleveland councilman who lived in the Detroit Shoreway community his entire life, his court bio says.

He was first elected to housing court, which hears criminal cases involving violations of municipal codes and select civil cases, in 1995 and was repeatedly re-elected.

"He was loved and respected by his employees," Coleman said.

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:31

Activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman among speakers at 15,000 person women's march in Cleveland where Coleman also led the march from Public Square to City Hall and back, a gathering with speakers such as Congress persons Fudge and Kaptur

22 January 2017

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland community activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, who is Black, 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who is the longest serving woman in congress, and 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge

Cleveland Urban News.Com, via editor Kathy Wray Coleman, interviewed now president Barack Obama one-on-one. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Some 15, 000 people protested on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, a sister march to the national women's march in Washington D.C and a local event with speakers that include Ohio Congress persons Marcia L. Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, Ohio state Rep. Nickie Antonio and Black Cleveland journalist and activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition, who also led the 15 thousand people on chants during a march to City Hall and back to Public Square.

Some 600 marches were held that day in cities across the country on women's issues, including the hub march in Washington, D.C. that drew over 200 thousand people to the nation's capital, a day after Donald Trump was inaugurated amid protests that brought some 200 arrests on nearby streets.

In Atlanta, some 60,000 people showed, in Chicago police turned people away because of the enormous crowd, and Los Angeles drew dome 750,00 protesters.

But, regardless of the turnout, women united across this country, and their voices were heard, loudly and clearly.

Also a former Cleveland schools biology teacher who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper and who now edits Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Coleman said in her rousing speech that the absence of a Black woman on President Trump's transition team and cabinet is inexcusable, that Black women are incarcerated at a rate four times that of White women, and that they traditionally earn 63 cents on the dollar compared to non-Hispanic White men.

She urged the federal government to bring in more resources to the largely Black city of Cleveland and talked on violence against women from the Imperial Avenue Murders in Cleveland by serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell, to the East Cleveland serial murders by convicted serial killer Michael Madison and the Seymour Avenue rape and kidnapping of Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry.

Led through the city streets by Coleman with a bull horn, protesters chanted 'No justice, no peace, My body my choice, Women united will never be defeated, and This is what democracy looks like," to name a few.

A Republican and former reality star turned president who won the presidency in November over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump is colorful at best.

The national women's march in Washington and similar rallies that were held in cities across the country came as Trump is under fire from women's rights groups and Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, for insensitive remarks during the presidential campaign against women, and the make-up of his transition team and cabinet, neither of which contains any Black women whatsoever.

Also at issue are comments the president made two weeks ago, saying Civil Rights icon and longtime Congressman John Lewis of Georgia had done nothing for his congressional districts.

The insensitive rhetoric caused Lewis to back-out of the inauguration and several other Washington Democrats followed his lead, some 62 Democratic lawmakers in fact, including Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, and Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose congressional district stretches to Cleveland. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE ON OHIO CONGRESSWOMAN MARCIA FUDGE JOINING CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS AND OTHERS TO BOYCOTT THE INAUGURATION AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 January 2017 19:07

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