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 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. (Note: A former 14-year biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.5 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who is Black and whose largely Black congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs, has joined a host of congressional Democrats that will boycott this week's inauguration in Washington in support of fellow Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. Fudge tweeted that she plans to be in Cleveland on inauguration Friday in Washington. She ended the tweet with the hashtag #IStandWithJohnLewis. A former national president of Delta Sigma Theta Inc. and also a former Warrensville Heights mayor, Fudge's posture is not surprising. The federal lawmaker is a scholar and also an attorney who has fought vigorously for healthcare, voting rights, equity for women, Blacks, children and others, and many other public policy matters that impact disenfranchised people and her constituents, most of whom live below the poverty line. A Civil Rights icon in Congress since 1987 who marched with the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lewis drew the ire last week of Trump after he said the Trump presidency is illegitimate due, in part, to Russian hacking into emails of Democratic National Committee operatives during the presidential election, and otherwise. In turn, Trump, a Republican and a reality star-turned president, lambasted Lewis and said he had done nothing for his congressional district, comments that caused Lewis to back-out of the inauguration, a decision that sparked support from a cadre of Washington Democrats, nearly 70 Democratic lawmakers who now say they will not attend the inauguration. Besides Fudge, several other Ohio Black politicians are upset with Trump's disrespect of Lewis, 76, including state Rep Bill Patmon, a Black Cleveland Democrat and former city councilman. "It disrespects the life works of John Lewis, from the Edmond Pettus Bridge to the Selma protests, and many other sacrifices that he has made for this country over his lifetime," said Patmon.
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