By Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.clevelandurbannews.com) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Powell Caesar (pictured), a mover and shaker in Cleveland's elite Black political community who was a former columnist for the Sun News Newspaper and wrote editorials for the Call and Post Newspaper with its general counsel and former Cleveland City Council President George Forbes, died Monday of a heart attack, a family spokesperson said.

A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office and an influential affiliate of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP that Forbes led for more than 20 years until last year, Powell, 63, was a Republican that wrote conservative columns in the Sun News that sometimes unnerved Blacks.

But he also took on White folks and did editorials with Forbes for the Call and Post anywhere from calling on former Sheriff Gerald McFaul to resign for malfeasance against the Black community and others to condemning former Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones for aggressively backing then New York Sen. Hillary Clinton against now President Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic Primary.

He was also the first Black to serve on a mayor's cabinet in Parma, Oh. and was appointed to that position in 2004 by former Parma Mayor Dean Pietro.

Probably one of his most notable acts was working in cooperation with Forbes and putting state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) on the cover of the Call and Post in an Aunt Jemima suit in retaliation for her support of Issue 6, a voter adopted Cuyahoga County governance reform measure that took effect in 2011 and replaced the three-member Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners and several other elected positions with an elected county executive and an 11- member county council.

Powell had friends in high places, including Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, whom he did bidding for at the Call and Post and in political circles for both the mayor's supporters and foes.

Both Forbes and Jackson praised Powell as a loyal friend and told reporters on Monday that his absence from political and community forums will be sorely missed.

Among others, Powell is survived by his current wife Shari.

Funeral arrangements are pending.