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First presidential debate to go forward in Cleveland on September 29 with Cleveland Clinic an adviser on COVID-19 to the Commission on Presidential Debates, protests planned in the city throughout the day as the Armed National Guard patrols the city

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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-The First Presidential Debate between President Donald Trump, a Republican, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will go forward on Tuesday, Sept. 29 in the largely Black city of Cleveland with the Armed National Guard in waiting and Black Lives Matter protests scheduled throughout the day.


Cleveland Clinic, just named the second best hospital in the world in U.S. News rankings, will co-host the event along with Case Western Reserve University, a private and prominent research university created in 1967.


The first of three debates scheduled before the November presidential election, Tuesday's debate will be held  at the Samson Pavilion at CWRU on the clinic's main campus and will air uninterrupted from 9 pm to 10:30 pm on every major network and cable news channel.


The University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana had originally agreed to be the host but pulled out amid the coronavirus pandemic.


Angie Kiska, senior director for public and media relations for the Cleveland Clinic, said this year's debate is far different than past presidential debates and that the Cleveland Clinic consulted with Ohio Gov Mike DeWine and health experts before recommending a limited audience at the debate due to COVID- 19 .


"Cleveland Clinic is the health advisor to the Commission on Presidential debates," said Kiska. "The pandemic has changed the way presidential debates are handled."


Kiska said tickets have been distributed for the debate and that for the most part the public will not be allowed in, and those invited are required to take and pass a coronavirus test prior to admission.

 

Both Bien and Trump received a limited number of tickets for invited guests, she said.

 

Asked if the president were disappointed with the limited audience for the debate, Kriska said "yes."


Since the pandemic broke in early March Ohio has reported 152,000 confirmed cases and some 4, 746 deaths, the U.S. alone compiling some seven million cases and roughly 205,000 coronavirus deaths.


Led by four- term mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor, Cleveland is a major American city, and a Democratic stronghold that sits in Cuyahoga County, also a Democratic stronghold, and the second largest  of 88 counties in Ohio, a pivotal state for presidential elections.


Cleveland became the first major city to elect an African-American mayor when voters elected the late Carl B Stokes to the post in 1967, Stokes the brother and only sibling of the late Louis Stokes, the first Black congressman from Ohio.


A former longtime U.S. senator, Biden served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, from 2009 to 2017, the year Trump, a real estate mogul and former reality television host who won over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, took over as president.


Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.comthe most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. 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.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 16:01

Women's March National/ Cleveland to march in October for equal rights and against Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Cleveland's march set for Oct 17 from 12pm-2pm at the Harvard Community Services Center, outside

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Women's March Cleveland will rally and march on Sat, Oct 17, 2020 as part of a national march for justice for women, and in response to the announcement by President Donald Trump on Saturday of of his conservative nominee that he hopes will replace iconic U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Cleveland march to be held outside at the Harvard Community Services in Cleveland at 18240 Harvard Avenue on the city's east side. Call (216) 659-0473 for more information.(Editor's note: The women's march event in Cleveland on Oct will feature 1pm rally and a 2:15 march from the Harvard Community Services Center through the Lee-Harvard community in Ward 1, the second largest voting bloc in Cleveland)

The upcoming women's march comes just weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election where President Trump, the Republican nominee, will square off against former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee.

A coalition of marches will be held on Oct. 17 in some 30 cities, including Cleveland, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, and in Washington D.C. where Women's March originated in 2017 when millions of women across the country took to the streets to denounce President Trump and his policies.

Appointed by the president in 2017 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago and a former Notre Dame Law School professor, Judge Amy Coney Barrett was named Saturday by Trump as his Supreme Court pick, the Republican-control Senate already in place to rush the nomination and get confirmation before the November presidential election.

Although Congressional Republicans already have the votes to confirm Barrett, Women's March Cleveland said no way, and that Judge Barrett would be detrimental to women and so many others were she appointed Supreme Court justice to the nine-member high court where Ginsburg, who died on Sept 18, was one of four liberal justices and three non-Black women.

Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin on Oct. 12, and if Barrett were to be confirmed next month as expected, her confirmation would give the court a 6-3 conservative majority.

"Amy Coney Barrett has a long, notorious record as an anti-choice, anti-immigrant rights extremist, "Women's March National said in a statement Saturday. "Her presence on the Supreme Court would be a direct threat against all the freedoms, rights, and feminist values Women's March has fought so hard to defend under this administration."

Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black Cleveland activist and women's rights advocate who has organized women's march rallies with others since 2018, and who led the original women's march in Cleveland in 2017, and every anniversary march in Cleveland since that time, agreed.

"As Black women continue to struggle for equality along side our White, Muslim, Palestinian, Jewish and minority sisters we are reminded that not all women are women's rights advocates and some in powerful roles, including appellate court judges, can take the women's rights and Civil Rights movements in the wrong direction," Coleman said.

Affiliated groups for Cleveland rally and march are Women's March Cleveland, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland, National Congress of Black Women Greater Cleveland Chapter, Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc, CCDWC, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network,  Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Clevelandurbannews. com, Black Votes Matter Cleveland.

Cleveland is a largely Black major American city, and Ohio a swing state for presidential elections.

Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, is a Democratic stronghold.

In spite of opposition from women's rights groups and Civil Rights organizations of his Supreme Court nominee, the pro-life president boasted of Barrett's legal credentials, and said she is a judge of integrity.

"She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution," Trump said of Judge Barrett

The president said Saturday that Judge Barrett is an accomplished legal scholar committed to following the constitution, though Women's March leaders have said that no matter how scholarly the president's supreme court nominee is they disagree with her, and the president, along public policy lines.

Cleveland will also host the Sept 29 debate between Trump and Biden, the first of three debates before the November election, and sponsored by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

At least three Blacks Lives Matter protests, now a youth fueled grassroots organization,  are schedule for the debate and all week in Cleveland beginning Tuesday, Cleveland Black Lives Matter group led by Black activists Latonya Goldsby and Kareem Hinton.

"We will be protesting against the president at least for the next month, beginning on Tuesday," said seasoned grassroots activist Cheryl Lessin of Cleveland Heights.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 21:09

Armed National Guard to monitor protests in Cleveland for 1st Presidential Debate behind the George Floyd riots in the city on May 25....The debate is September 29....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

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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- Ohio GOVE Mike DeWine has granted the request by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to deploy 300 members of the armed National Guard to patrol the city ahead of the Sept 29 First Presidential Debate on Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists planning at least two protests.

A Democrat, Jackson is the four-term Black mayor of the city, and the city's third Black mayor.

The debate between Republican President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, is sponsored by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

It will be held  at the Samson Pavilion on the clinic's main campus and will air uninterrupted from 9 pm to 10:30 pm on every major network and cable news channel

Both Black Lives Matter protests are from 5pm-8pm and near the location of the debate, at University Circle, and the other at 105th Street and Chester Ave.

Cleveland has some 1,613 patrol officers, and roughly 60 percent of them are White, even though the city is roughly 58 percent Black.

The armed National Guard comes to Cleveland on the heels of the May 25 riots during a protest in downtown Cleveland over the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and nationwide unrest relative to excessive force killings by police of a host of unarmed Black people, and anger by activists over the president's handling of the protests, which they say is fueled by his pro- cop stance.

Federal authorities are already in Cleveland as part of Trump's Operation Legend initiative, which he says is operating in selected major cities across the country in an effort to deter crime, community activists arguing that its is merely harassment of protesters, and an orchestrated attempt to silence free speech.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.comthe most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. 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.


 


Last Updated on Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:10

Police officer indicted in Louisvillian Breonna Taylor's shooting death as protesters flood the streets of the Derby City....The two other involved White cops were not indicted on criminal charges....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

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Pictured is Breonna Taylor, whom Louisville Metro police shot and killed in March when they barged into her home unannounced via a no knock warrant, Taylor unarmed and shot eight times. Also pictured are Kentucky Attorney General James Cameron, and former Louisville detective Brett Hankison, the police officer just indicted on three felony counts in Taylor's shooting death
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.comthe most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. 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.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky-One of the three White Metro-Louisville cops involved in the shooting death in March of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor has been indicted on criminal charges while the other two were deemed justified in their behavior, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is Black, announced Wednesday as protestors began flooding the streets in the downtown area of the Derby City.

The county grand jury returned an indictment for three felony counts of wanton endangerment against former Louisville detective Brett Hankison, who was fired shortly after the incident.

The other two officers who were with Hankison when he gunned down Taylor at her apartment earlier this year, Sgt, Jonathan Mattingly and officer Myles Cosgrove, remain on administrative leave with pay.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, a Democrat, had called for swift action by the grand jury on whether criminal charges would be brought in the case.

The city, a week and a half ago, settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Taylor's family for $12 million, the largest excessive force settlement of its kind in Louisville's history.

A Mitch McConnell protégé who is married to McConnell's granddaughter and who spoke at the Republican National Convention this past summer, Cameron, 34, who headed the investigation leading up to Hankison's indictment, said that Hankison faces 5 years for each felony count.

"My office is prepared to prove these charges at trial," Cameron said during a press conference on Wednesday. "However, it's important to note he is presumed innocent until proven guilty."
An emergency room technician at the time of her death, police shot and killed Taylor on March 13 in her Louisville apartment after the three cops at issue barged in via a no-knock narcotics warrant.

Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a gun off when police entered the apartment unannounced, and Taylor, in turn, was shot and killed by police.

She was shot eight times.

The union for the police officers remains in their corner.

Media mogul and billionaire Oprah Winfrey was among a growing number of prominent Blacks who had demanded criminal charges relative to the tragedy, and Taylor's family and the family attorneys were pushing for indictments too.

Oprah had financed 26 billboards across the city calling for the indictments, a billboard for each of the 26-years Taylor was alive before she was erroneously gunned down.

Last month Winfrey stepped off the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine, for the first time in 20 years to feature Taylor on the cover of the latest issue, her picture an edited image that Taylor had of herself before she was killed.

Taylor's shooting death has heightened racial tensions in the Louisville community, the city only 23 percent Black, and Jefferson County, which includes Louisville, just 19 percent Black.

The state of Kentucky, with Louisville its largest city in front of Lexington, has a Black population of a mere eight percent.

Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert J. Schroeder fired Hankison, saying he violated departmental rules and procedures, and deadly force standards in shooting and killing Taylor.

"When Hankison and two other plainclothes officers used a no-knock warrant to enter Taylor’s apartment March 13, he wantonly and blindly fired 10 rounds," said  Chief Schroeder.

Police claim her residence was suspected of drug activity and that a car registered to her was allegedly seen parked at a nearby residence under police surveillance for alleged drug dealing activity by an ex- acquaintance.

No drugs were found.

The city has since outlawed no knock warrants.

Seven people got shot in the crowd during one of Louisville's protest for justice for Breonna, one critically.

Taylor's shooting death by police has drawn ongoing protests in Louisville, including during the Kentucky Derby in early September, and is among other high profile excessive force cases across the county involving unarmed Blacks, including the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

A 46-year-old Black man, Floyd died when since fired Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, who is White, the arresting officer, held his knee on his neck until he killed him, and before a crowd of people as the Black man pleaded for his life and cried out that he could not breathe.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.comthe most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. 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.

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 March 2021 03:15

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