Pictured are actress and academy award-winner Susan Sarandon (wearing black), Ohio 11th Congressional District Candidate Nina Turner (wearing eye glasses), and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (wearing blue) Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest, and the most read independent digital news in Ohio. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We 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. By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.
CLEVELAND, Ohio- Coming off of a Zoom fundraiser with actor Danny Glover and an endorsement on Monday from Democratic U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, former Ohio senator Nina Turner, also a former co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign who is a front runner for the Ohio's 11th congressional district seat vacated earlier this month by now U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary Marcia L. Fudge, has drawn the support of famed actress and academy award-winner Susan Sarandon for her congressional bid, Sarandon the special guest for an online fundraiser for Turner on Wednesday, March 31 at 8 pm.
The Democratic primary for the 11th congressional district seat that is up for grabs is Aug. 3 and the general election is Nov. 2
It is a special election set by Ohio Gov Mike DeWine to fill Fudge's seat in Congress, which will remain vacant until voters choose her successor.
Dubbed "Ohio Grassroots for Nina Turner Fundraiser," Wednesday's fundraiser for Turner is being sponsored by grassroots activists in the pivotal state of Ohio, according to the Facebook event page that reads in relevant part that "our own Nina Turner is running for Congress in Ohio District 11. This is a people-powered campaign that doesn't take any corporate money. It's up to US to send Nina to Washington."
A Sen Sanders advocate, and a progressive like Sanders, she has supported Turner for sometime beginning with Sanders' first bid for president in 2016 when Turner was his surrogate and led his political group "Our Revolution."
A Cleveland Democrat and former city councilwoman, Turner is one of seven declared candidates for the hotly contested congressional race, and she leads in fundraising.
The other six candidates are Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman and County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, also a front-runner like Turner, former Ohio senator Jeff Johnson, former Ohio senator Shirley Smith, former state representative John Barnes Jr, former state representative Bryan Flannery, and Tarik Shabazz, a U.S. Navy veteran.
All of them are Democrats, and all of them are Black except Flannery, who is White.
Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district includes most of Cleveland, a majority Black pocket of Akron, and staggering suburbs of Cuyahoga and Summit counties in the Northeast part of the state.
It is a Democratic stronghold, as is Cuyahoga County, the second largest of Ohio's 88 counties.,
The candidate who wins the Democratic primary is all but assured to become Fudge's 11th congressional district replacement in Congress where Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the White House, though they narrowly control the Senate.
A former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, former congresswoman Fudge served in Congress for nearly 12 years before accepting President Joe Biden's offer to lead HUD.
Pictured are actress and academy award-winner Susan Sarandon (wearing black), Ohio 11th Congressional District Candidate Nina Turner (wearing eye glasses), and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (wearing blue) Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest, and the most read independent digital news in Ohio. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We 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. By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher. 
