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Black voters in Louisville and Lexington bring Clinton a razor thin victory in Kentucky over Sanders, who won the Oregon primary over Clinton.... Forty-four percent of Kentucky's Black population is in Jefferson County, which includes Louisville

18 May 2016

Kathy

Pictured are presidential candidates Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

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By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a legal, educational, political and investigative journalist and the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, LOUISVILLE, Kentucky- Hillary Clinton won the Kentucky Democratic primary on Tuesday over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a win by a fraction of a percent, a few thousand votes in fact, and with help from Black voters in Louisville, the state's largest city, and Lexington, its second largest municipality.

She did not, however, give her standard victory speech, an indication, say political pundits, that the former secretary of state is confident that she has Sanders up against the ropes.

With 99 percent of the votes tabulated and 55 delegates at stake, Clinton took Kentucky with 212,318 votes to Sanders' 210, 505, Clinton winning by 46.7 percent, and Sanders 46.3 percent.

Sanders won handily in Oregon Tuesday night, a state with 61 delegates.

There he is beating Clinton 56 percent to her 46 percent with 75 percent of the vote counted.

The delegates are split per the DNC rules for Democrats.

Tuesday's election results have not slowed Sanders' grassroots momentum in a race for the Democratic nomination that has become increasingly intense, and mathematically impossible for him to win.

A Democratic presidential candidate must get 2,383 delegates to clinch the nomination and Clinton has 2,294 total delegates, which includes pledged delegates and likely superdelegates. Sanders, has 1,523, hardly enough to stem the tide.

Sanders ran strong in Union and Pike counties of Kentucky where coal miners want systemic change and more jobs, and he also won in rural areas.

Some coal miners are angry over campaign comments Clinton made on her proposed energy policies that they say will cut jobs.

Clinton had stronger support in urban communities.

She beat Sanders in Fayette and Jefferson counties.

Fayette County is 13 percent Black and includes the city of Lexington and its 14 percent Black population, and Jefferson County, led by Louisville and its 33 percent Black population, has a 20 percent Black population.

Forty-four percent of Kentucky's Black population is in Jefferson County, and 52 percent are in the Louisville Metro area.

The native home of boxing great Muhammad Ali, Louisville, with its 250,000 people, felt its clout as the two presidential contenders courted the Black vote, and others.

Sanders campaigned in Louisville before Tuesday's primary, and so did Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton.

Sanders spoke two weeks ago at a rally on the waterfront in downtown Louisville and Bill Clinton at the African American museum in the Russell community.

Just last weekend, Hillary Clinton rallied supporters at St. Stephen, likely the city's most prominent Black church.

Kentuckians have supported the Clinton's at the ballot box.

Bill Clinton, as the Democratic nominee, won Kentucky in both 1992 and 1996, and Hillary Clinton, in 2008, took the Kentucky primary over Barack Obama by 32 points, though she lost the nomination to the then junior senator from Illinois.

Obama went on to win the presidency, and he won a second term in 2012.

Sanders was not taken back by his loss in Kentucky and has his win Tuesday night in Oregon to brag about.

He has had a string of recent victories, including the West Virginia primary on May 10.

During a speech before supporters Tuesday night in California, which he made after his win in Oregon, Sanders vowed to "pass medicare for all health care system."

He said that "no real change has ever occurred in our country from the top on down." And he took the opportunity to push for a win in California's upcoming June 7 primary election.

More noticeably, he made it known that the fight is still on, and said unequivocally, "we are in till the last ballot."

California has 475 delegates and is among nine more scheduled Democratic primaries that can bring pledged delegates.

The others are Puerto Rico, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.

As the upcoming July Democratic convention nears and Clinton moves closer to grabbing the nomination, Sanders simply will not give up, and neither will his supporters.

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Last Updated on Friday, 10 June 2016 19:43

Led by LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Toronto Raptors 115-84 to win Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, a playoffs win by the widest margin in franchise history for the Cavs and head coach Tyronn Lue, who is Black

18 May 2016

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue, and Cavaliers ball players LeBron James (wearing head band) and Kyrie Irving (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now 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

Kathy Wray Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday won Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, beating the Toronto Raptors at the Quicken Loans Arena 115-84, a beat down by all standards, and the widest margin playoffs game win in franchise history.

The domination Tuesday night by the team, led by megastar LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, is an indication of what the Raptors have to overcome to walk away with an Eastern Conference title, and it spells trouble, sports pundits have said.

Irving led the Cavs in scoring with 27 points, followed by James, who scored 24 points on 11 of 13 shooting, coupled with six rebounds and four assists.

Demar DeRozan led the Raptors with 18 points and Kyle Lowry finishied with eight points.

Game 2 is Thursday, May 19 at 8:30 pm EST.

It was the ninth straight postseason playoffs win for the Cavs and head coach Tyronn Lue, who is Black and was promoted from associate coach to the top job in January, replacing David Blatt

Coming into the conference finals the Cavs were confident after sweeping the Detroit Pistons in the opening series and then ousting the Atlanta Hawks in round two of the series, also with a four-game sweep.

Coach Lue has said at the start of the series that his coaching strategy is to "be aggressive and attack." (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

Last Updated on Monday, 30 May 2016 21:49

Supreme Court sends case challenging Obama mandate for religious employers to pay for birth control for women employees back to the lower court for a compromise....Obama praises the decision, saying that for now women can still get free birth control

16 May 2016

Kathy

Pictured is President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America

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By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman, who is a legal, educational, political and investigative journalist and is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- Cleveland, Ohio — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent a celebrated case involving a dispute between religious employers and the Obama administration on the requirement under the Affordable Care Act for employer-paid birth control for women back to the lower court for a potential compromise.

Faith-based groups object to the birth control mandate on religious grounds.

Obamacare advocates are calling the Supreme Court ruling a win that clears the way for free birth control from religious employers while opponents say they have won a reprieve. Time will tell.

President Obama, whose presidency and policies have not only helped Blacks but also women, praised the ruling and said that its effect is that for now working women will be able to get employer-paid birth control under the Affordable Care Act, a federal law more commonly known as Obamacare, a 2010 overhaul of the nation's healthcare system.

The controversy has unleashed a feud between Obama's attorneys and authorities of the Catholic Church regime.

The lead plaintiff in the case against the federal government is the Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh with the nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor also on board.

Last month the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case.

The Obama administration had hoped to narrow their frustrations with an accommodation that the faith-based groups have rejected as unsatisfactory. One lower appellate court agrees.

Some six federal appeals accessing several cases have upheld the accommodation offered by the Obama administration as constitutional while the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has ruled that it violates the rights of religious groups.

The accommodation permits complaining religious employers to object and withdraw from involvement but allows insurers to approve the contraceptives to women employees at no charge.

The rare move by the nation's high court relative to its three page decision on Monday suggests an inside 4-4 split by the justices and is an example of how the death earlier this year of longtime conservative justice Antonin Scalia and his absence from the bench as one of the nine justices have impacted court decisions.

The justices simply lacked the majority to rule one way or another, legal experts have said.

The justices, instead, issued an unsigned unanimous decision in the case, which affects other cases on the issue and affiliated appellate court rulings, and stated in relevant part that "the court expresses no view on the merits of the cases."

The matter almost certainly would not come before the Supreme Court again until after the 2016 presidential election, making that election even more pivotal as to the liberal-conservative 4-4 make-up of the court, give or take moderate positions sometimes exhibited by Chief Justice John Roberts, the swing vote on the constitutional legality of Obamacare.

Obama has nominated Judge Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace Scalia but Senate Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have stalled on Senate confirmation hearings.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 09:25

Cleveland teachers vote to strike if union contract negotiations fail, setting the stage for a showdown with Black Mayor Frank Jackson, who controls the city schools under state law and has not said if he will seek reelection next year

15 May 2016

Kathy

Pictured is Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson

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Kathy Wray Coleman is a legal, educational, political and investigative journalist and is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland teachers have voted to authorize a strike this fall if negotiations fail as their three-year union contract ends in June.

The conflict sets the stage for a showdown between the largely White teachers union, most members of whom are suburbanites, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the three- term Black mayor of the majority Black major American city who controls the city schools and appoints board of education members per state law.

According to a Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper article published May 14, some 96 percent of union members last week rejected a contract proposal recommended by a fact-finder, making it possible for an upcoming strike.

The no votes amounted to 87 percent of the more than 4,000 union members, including those that did not vote, which meets the 60 percent threshold needed.

"A strike is an option only if the district refuses to provide a better way forward," Cleveland Teachers Union President David Quolke told the Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper. " Our members and the kids of Cleveland deserve the best learning conditions possible."

Quolke is White and is at odds with Jackson and the school board regarding contract negotiations and radial changes initiated since 2012 that he supported, among other initiatives, including the manner in which teachers are evaluated.

Cleveland voters will decide in November whether to renew a 15-mill schools tax levy approved in 2012 with support from 57 percent of the voters.

The Democratic mayor has said that the board of education that he appoints has the power, though he was the face of the levy campaign in 2012 and ran for reelection the following year on a political platform of reforming and improving the largely Black and impoverished school district.

Jackson has not said publicly whether he will embark on an unprecedented fourth term next year. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ON WHETHER CLEVELAND MAYOR FRANK JACKSON WILL SEEK AN HISTORIC FOURTH TERM IN 2017 AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Sources have said that the mayor will likely seek re-election in 2017. He won re-election handily over millionaire businessman Ken Lanci in 2013. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ON MAYOR JACKSON'S ELECTION TO A THIRD TERM AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

The school system remains at the bottom like the neighboring largely Black East Cleveland school district on state report card mandates and relative to standardized testing.

Meanwhile, Ohio State Legislature continues to promote an unconstitutional public school funding formula that gives more monies to rich school districts based in part on property taxes.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 May 2016 00:11

Endorsement by Obama and Biden helps Strickland of Ohio as he and Senator Rob Portman are neck and neck for Portman's U.S. senate seat....A Democrat, Strickland spoke to Cleveland Urban News.Com at an event in Cleveland on what he will do for Blacks

12 May 2016

Kathy

Pictured are President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America, Vice President Joe Biden (wearing black and white tie), former Ohio governor Ted Strickland (wearing blue suit), whom Obama and Biden, in March, endorsed for his bid for the U.S. Senate, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (wearing grey suit and red tie), a junior Republican senator who is neck and neck with Strickland for the November election

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-Cleveland, Ohio- The celebrated endorsement in March by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden of former Democratic Ohio governor Ted Strickland's bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman this November is coming in handy as recent polls have them neck and neck.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows a virtual tie, Strickland with 43 percent, as well as Portman, a poll with a margin of error of +/- three percent.

And the endorsement of Strickland by the nation's Democratic president and vice president gives the state of Ohio even more clout as a pivotal state for presidential elections.

"As Ohio goes, so goes the nation," former Cuyahoga County commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, a Shaker Heights Democrat and longtime Obama supporter, told Cleveland Urban News.Com in reiterating the popular cliche that has helped to make Ohio a swing state that must be reckoned with.

No Republican in thinkable years and no Democrat since president John F. Kennedy in 1960 has lost Ohio in the general election and subsequently walked away with a presidency.

U.S. Senate elections are a little different, but can also go either way for Republicans and Democrats.

Strickland endorsed Obama for president in 2012. But in 2008, he supported Hillary Clinton for Ohio's Democratic primary, which she won, though she lost the nomination to the now two -term Obama, America's first Black president, and the country's highest ranking Democrat.

The front-runner, Clinton seeks the Democratic nomination for president this year against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is holding his own but lags in delegates. And the colorful real estate mogul Donald Trump is now the presumptive nominee for the Republicans, which will hold their convention in the largely Black city of Cleveland this July, a city led by three-term Black Mayor Frank Jackson, a Democrat.

A center-right Republican, Portman is a lawyer and, like Strickland. a former U.S. representative. He succeeded George Voinovich, a former mayor of Cleveland, in the U.S. Senate, a seat he has held since 2011.

The other U.S. Senate seat is held by Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat up for reelection for another six-year term in 2018.

Strickland lost reelection in 2010 to now two-term Republican John Kasich, also a former Congressman, and a former 2016 presidential candidate.

Strickland spoke at length with Cleveland Urban New. Com in a largely Black forum in Cleveland last year, a gig staged by longtime Democratic Party operative Charles E. Bibb Sr., who is Black.

That gathering, at Angie's Soul Food Restaurant on Cleveland's largely Black east side, drew a large crowd of Democrats, including union -types, activists, Black clergy, and a few elected officials,

A former East Cleveland councilman, Bibb is the president of the greater Cleveland Carnegie Roundtable, which sponsored the luncheon with Strickland.

During that forum Strickland, who lost a second term as governor to Kasich in 2010, promised that Black issues of public concern will be part of his congressional platform if he were to win the primary, as he did, and thereafter Portman's heavily guarded U.S. Senate seat, a political quest that will be readily determined at the ballot box in November.

The former governor also said that education, jobs, social security, medicaid and healthcare are his priority, among a litany of other public policy topics that he tossed to the audience before taking questions.

Strickland did admit, via questioning at the forum by Cleveland Urban News.Com., that the Ohio state legislature did not comply with the DeRolph decision, a ruling handed down by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2002 and reissued several times.

That ruling, which the high court of Ohio allowed the Republican controlled state legislature to outright ignore, mandated a revision of Ohio's public school funding formula by the state legislature, and deemed it unconstitutional, due partly to the over-reliance on property taxes that create "property rich and property poor school districts." And Black children and poor children are disproportionately impacted, data show.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 09:37

Death penalty phase begins for Michael Madison: East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison found guilty of murdering three Black women and now faces the death penalty....The Imperial Women Coalition call for Madison to be held accoutable

11 May 2016

Kathy

By editor Kathy Wray Coleman, who is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- A 12-member Cuyahoga County jury, after nearly five weeks of trial before presiding judge Nancy McDonnell, found suspected East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison (pictured) guilty of multiple counts of murder and several other charges on May 5, setting the stage for a potential death penalty determination.

Some greater Cleveland community activists said Thursday that they are pleased with the outcome.

"We are pleased with the jury decision of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and we call for Mr. Madison to be punished within the fullest extent of the law," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the grassroots group the Imperial Women Coalition and has led rallies in East Cleveland relative to the Michael Madison murders.

Coleman also called for a moratorium on the murders of Black women in greater Cleveland and for more to be done to seek to eradicate violence against women locally, countywide, statewide, and nationally.

Madison, 38, was charged with various counts, including rape, abuse of a corpse and three counts each of kidnapping and aggravated murder relative to Angela Deskins, 38 and of Cleveland, Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and Shirellda Terry, 18 and also of Cleveland.

He was found guilty on 13 counts, all but the weapons specification charge, and the death penalty phase trial-type hearing begins May 12, a spokesperson for Judge McDonnell told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper. He and his court appointed attorneys are claiming alleged child abuse as an excuse to escape the death penalty for his selfless murders of his Black female victims.

Madison has said that he does not want to be compared to serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell, who murdered 11 Black women and raped several others at his since demolished home on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side.

He did not take the stand at trial, though prosecutors played an audiotape of police interrogation of the serial killer where he admitted to killing Sheeley, whom he knew, and Terry, whom he met as she was coming home from a summer tutoring job. He said that he did not remember if he murdered Deskins and, per the audiotape, that his mother's high expectations and his failure to meet them drove him to drink and spoke marijuana, which he sold to make ends meet.

The remains of the three Black women were found wrapped in trash bags in 2013 near the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland, a largely Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland.

Deskins and Sheeley were strangled to death, and the remains of Terry were too decomposed to access the extent of the damage, the Cuyahoga County medical examiner said.

Police found the first of the three bodies on July 19, 2013 after a foul smell was reported coming from a garage leased to Madison. The other two remains were discovered a day later, one in the backyard of an abandoned home and the other in the basement of a nearby vacant house.

Deskins was reported missing in June 2013, Sheeley in September 2012, and Terry was last seen leaving her summer job at Carver Elementary School in Cleveland on July 10, 2013.

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Last Updated on Friday, 03 June 2016 04:10

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