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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog

Kathy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Free tickets for the event sponsored by the City Club at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on tomorrow March 18 at 3 pm of the speech by President Barack Obama on the importance of middle class economics are all gone.

Whether Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will also give remarks is up in the air, though he will attend, said his spokesperson Dan Williams.

"I don't know that he [Mayor Jackson] has anything prepared, but he will be there," said Williams.

Jackson is Black and is in his third term as mayor of the largely Black major American city.

The event will be streamlined online at www.whitehouse.gov/live. and is  limited to City Club members, their guests, a few dignitaries, and the media.

The president last visited Cleveland in 2013 when he toured the Arcelor Mittal steel plant on the city's east side.

Founded in 1912, and dubbed the citadel of free speech, the City Club sponsors non-partisan forums with guest speakers, monthly issue roundtables, and high school debate championships.

Other U.S. presidents that have addressed the City Club include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush in 2006.

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