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Dems formally nominate Joe Biden for president at day 2 of the convention as Colin Powell speaks and Bill Clinton rips into Trump, Dr. Jill Biden, John Kerry, and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also among the speakers-Critics want more Black participation

19 August 2020

Kathy

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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.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -Following a diverse roll call vote of party delegates the Democrats formally nominated former vice president Joe Biden pictured) for president on Tuesday, the second day of the mostly virtual Democratic National Convention.

Featured convention speakers were Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, former president Bill Clinton, former secretary of state Colin Powell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and John Kerry, a former long time U.S. senator out of Massachusetts and 2004 unsuccessful Democratic nominee for president.

Critics want more Black and minority participation at the convention, Muslims and the Black Lies Matter Movement subordinated to a more mainstream convention, they say, and even though the Black vote is crucial to the Democrats winning the White House.

An entourage of pro-Biden advocates spoke, including activists, teachers, mayors, congress persons and everyday people across the spectrum, the forum also including videos of former Democratic president Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, and the late U.S. senator John McCain, and his wife, Cindy McCain, McCain a Republican and a swing vote in Congress that kept Obamacare alive.

Democratic National Convention Chairman Tom Perez, a former U.S. asst. attorney general and labor secretary under Barack Obama, the Black president whom Biden served under, said Democrats have a quality candidate in Biden during a crisis period in American history.

A Rhodes Scholar, Clinton gave a keynote address and a blistering depiction of President Donald Trump, and he ripped into the president over the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic that continues to sweep the nation, and the world, the U.S. with more than 170,000 deaths from the uncontrollable virus.

“At first, he said the virus was under control and would soon disappear,” Clinton said. “When it didn’t, he was on TV every day bragging on what a great job he was doing while our scientists waited to give us vital information. "

Night two followed a spectacular night on Monday, the four-day convention, based in Milwaukee and airing from 9 pm- 11 pm each night, set to end Thursday.

A retired four star general and joint chiefs of staff who served as secretary of state under former president George W. Bush, and who crossed partisan lines and endorsed Obama over John McCain for president in 2008, Colin Powell warned Americans that military foreign relations are at risk under Trump

"I support Joe Biden because on Day One he will restore America’s leadership and our moral authority," Powell said, Powell a popular Black Republican that the Dems hope can influence fellow Republicans to vote for Biden. "He [Joe Biden] will restore America’s leadership in the world and restore the alliances we need to address the dangers that threaten our nation, from climate change to nuclear proliferation."

A former classroom teacher, Jill Biden won the love of the media and others like Michelle Obama did during Monday night's convention, an indication of the influence spouses of presidential nominees have on voters, and the mainstream media.

She spoke of family, love, and loss, and she fought for public school teachers and school children, outlining the devastating impact the coronavirus has had on the educational community.

“As a mother, and as a grandmother, and as an American, I am heartbroken by the magnitude of this loss, by the failure to protect our communities, by every precious and irreplaceable life gone,” Jill Biden said.

At the core of the speeches was leadership, and COVID-19, speaker after speaker condemning President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

A new CNN poll found that Trump's approval rating regarding the handling of the coronavirus crisis is at an all time low at 38 percent, one in 10 Americans embarrassed on how the U.S. has handled the crippling pandemic

Rep Ocasio-Cortez, a 30 something New York congresswoman, nominated progressive U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sanders the last of nearly 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls to leave the 2020 race for president, his second bid for the nomination.

Progressives like Ocasio-Cortez, and former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner out out Cleveland, Ohio, continue to demand more inclusiveness by the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen Elizabeth Warren, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Democratic ice presidential candidate Sen Kamala Harris and former president Obama highlight the list of Wednesday's convention speakers.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:12

Michelle Obama steals the show at day one of the Democratic National Convention...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest

18 August 2020

Kathy

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -Michelle Obama, a Princeton Law School graduate and the nation's first Black first lady, stole the show Monday for day one of the four-day mainly virtual Democratic National Convention based out of Milwaukee, an unconventional convention fabulously done last night at the helm of the Democratic National Committee, and one that, no doubt, spells more trouble for President Donald Trump's reelection bid.

Republicans will showcase their talents at a virtual convention that begins next week, the Nov. 3 presidential election just months away, a showdown that pits incumbent Trump against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a former vice president who served under Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Michelle Obama's husband.

Rated the most admired woman in the world, Michelle Obama told people to “vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”

She said, in response to her now famous slogan that “when they go low, we go high,' that 'going high means taking the harder path.”

The former first lady called Trump immature, and petty, and she said he is a bully who lacks empathy.

“His life is a testament to getting back,” she said.

And she highlighted systemic racism and excessive force, mentioning the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the murder of Breonna Taylor in March by Louisville Metro police, both of them Black and unarmed, and both the impetus for the the Civil Right Movement that has brought Black and White protesters alike to the streets.

She took issue with the president deploying military forces to major American cities to harass and intimidate innocent and peaceful protesters.

“But there for the grace of God go, I,” said Michelle Obama, a brilliant orator in her own right.

Political pundits praised her performance that they called warm and diplomatic, and a plea for Americans to vote their hearts out, though they said too that she took a sledge hammer to Trump, from criticizing his racial and misogynist rhetoric and ludicrous policies to what she says has been gross incompetence by the Republican president in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Billed with Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders as headliners and Latina actress Eva Longoria as a moderator, an array of speakers, including former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, activists, common people, Democratic elected officials and crossover Republicans such as former Ohio governor John Kasich, came aboard for the opening day of the convention, which was streamlined and televised worldwide.

First responders, farmers, union advocates and doctors and nurses were also in Monday's line-up of speakers, an indication of the cleverness of the Democrats in gathering a cross section of participants as Biden leads in the polls, and in some instances by 12 points.

Day one was a testament to what is coming ahead for the next three days of the convention, the cornavirus, and Trump, front and center.

Family members of police murder victims, Blacks in particular, were part of the forum too, including the mother of Eric Garner, whom Staten Island police choked to death as he cried 'I can't breath,' words also uttered by Floyd before he was unmercifully murdered by police in Minneapolis nearly three months ago.

Others prominent Democrats who spoke Monday were U.S. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibran of New York, and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, all three of them former presidential candidates, New York Gov. Andrew Coumo, who blasted Trump as a racist who promotes White supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan, and South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, was also among the speakers, and she said that Trump describes her as nothing more than “that woman from Michigan.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former secretary of state John Kerry, N.Y. Rep. Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, former president Bill Clinton,and former second lady Dr. Jill Biden are among the speakers for day two of the Democratic National Convention.

Nancy Pelosi, Sen Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Sen Kamala Harris, and former president Obama will speak Wednesday, among others.

Biden's running mate for vice president Harris, the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, and Biden will accept their nominations in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 August 2020 04:12

Rep. Marcy Kaptur comments after Cleveland farmers are tapped by the USDA for FSA representation for farmers as farming while Black remains rare in America and 95 percent of U.S. farmers are White-Rep Fudge is a member of the House agricultural committee

16 August 2020

Kathy

Pictured are urban Black farmers, 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11) (wearing bluish-green suit), and 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio (D-9) (in blue suit and turtleneck)

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), a Toledo Democrat whose ninth congressional district extends to Cleveland, responded after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Cleveland will be the recipient of a new Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee focused exclusively on urban agriculture.

County committees have enabled farmer input on the delivery of FSA programs since the 1930s, and these new committees are part of USDA’s efforts to better support urban agriculture.

The longest serving woman in Congress, Kaptur said that she is glad to have helped make Northern Ohio a leader in urban agriculture after leading efforts for years to install the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production.

“I am glad to see Cleveland will be will be the recipient of a new Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee,” said Rep. Kaptur. “Facilitating urban agriculture has been one of my dearest priorities in Congress."

The committees are organized through USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production, and the first five will be located in:

Cleveland, Oh

Philadelphia, Pa.

Portland, Ore.

Richmond, Va.

Albuquerque, N.M.

Five additional county committees will be announced in the fall.

Cleveland is a largely Black major American city of some 385,000 people, and the second largest city in Ohio, behind Columbus, the state capital.

It is led by four-term Black mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor.

Rep Marcia L. Fudge, one of two Blacks in Congress from Ohio and a Warrenville Heights Democrat whose majority Black 11th congressional district also includes Cleveland, and mainly its largely Black east side, is chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations and, like Kaptur, she too is constantly fighting for food security

Rep. Kaptur said that the farmers are invaluable to their communities, playing a large role in reducing food insecurity and making fresh produce available to those who might otherwise not be able to access it.

"This is a positive step forward and I look forward to working with the soon to be established county committee in Cleveland," Congresswoman Kaptur said.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 95 percent of farmers in the country are White, some 3.2 million of them, while Blacks, nearly 50,000 of them, represent only a small fraction of the nation's farming industry at 1.4 percent.

Kaptur and Fudge are not alone in their support of urban farmers, and the need to increase minority participation.

“County committees represent farmers and set priorities at the local level,” said Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey. “Urban and suburban farmers are uniquely qualified to identify the needs of growers and their communities, especially when it comes to making fresh, healthy food accessible.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that only one in 10 Americans eats the daily recommendation of fruits and vegetables, and people living in poverty have especially low rates of consumption of fresh produce

FSA officials are encouraging farmers in urban areas to rise to the challenge, and to encourage others to participate.

“I encourage urban growers to nominate candidates to lead, serve, and represent their community on their county committee,” said FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce. “Diverse representation can ensure that the needs of all farmers, including urban and suburban farmers, are included in local decisions for USDA programs.”

The urban and suburban county committees will work to encourage and promote urban, indoor, and other emerging agricultural production practices. Additionally, the new county committees may address areas such as food access, community engagement, support of local activities to promote and encourage community compost, and food waste reduction.

Committees will make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally. Their input is vital to how FSA carries out disaster programs, as well as conservation, commodity and price support programs, county office employment, and other agricultural issues.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the Midwest and Ohio's Black digital leaders.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. 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, 16 August 2020 18:05

Zack Reed, Black Women's PAC respond to the picket on Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's home by White activists, and the associated mainstream media coverage.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

15 August 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard) and former city councilman Zack Reed. At right a group of some 15 largely White activists picket the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on Aug. 14

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former Cleveland councilman Zack Reed spoke to Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com in detail during a one-on-one interview Friday, hours after a group of some 15 young, and practically all White activists, led by the unfamiliar activist group the Sunshine Movement, picketed the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (Editor's note: Read further down in the article for Reed's comments).

Mainstream media outlets Cleveland.com, which is the online affiliate of the Plain Dealer, and Cleveland television channels Fox 8 News and News 5 Cleveland, as well as alternative news enues such as Ideastream and Scene Magazine, were among the media that covered the picket.

Dubbed "Wake-up Mayor Jackson" the protest began outside of the mayor's home in the Central neighborhood on the city's majority Black east side at 6 am in what the young activists said was a wake-up call regarding the mayor's lackadaisical approach to social ills in the city and his position against calls to defund the police.

Both the mayor and Police Chief Calvin Williams have publicly gone against the demands by activists to break up the police department and reallocate police funds to neighborhoods.

Activists wore masks and chanted and sung songs in front of the mayor's home, and they gave speeches, the picket one of many occurring nationwide in general following the May 25 Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man, one of so many Blacks who have fallen victim to excessive force by police across the country.

"No Justice No Sleep," a sign read that activists held up at the protest.

Activists said that Jackson, a four-term Black Democratic mayor, has not done enough to minimize police abuse in the largely Black major American city.

"Jackson is sleeping through the many crises we are facing in this moment," they said in a press release.

Other Blacks said the mainstream media coverage of the protest on Jackson's home with so few White activists there is suspect and racist, and that Whites, like crooked judges, other elected officials, and prosecutors who do wrong, and corrupt White cops too, are often protected by Cleveland's mainstream media.

"We have had so many killings of young Black men in the last two weeks with no media in sight at the vigils and it is astounding to learn that media covered 15 White young people who likely do not live on the east side in front of our mayor's home as he works to make Cleveland a better city for all people," said Elaine Gohlstin, a community activist of 40 years and the president of the Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland.

Activist Mary Seawright, who owns and manages Seawright Enterprises in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood in Ward 6, said that "while the mayor needs to stop supporting police who do wrong by Black people, I have a problem with the media targeting him as a Black man and leaving Whites alone."

Reed had an altogether different take on the matter.

A long time former city councilman who did not seek reelection in order to run for mayor against Jackson, a four-term Black mayor, Reed lost a non-partisan mayoral runoff to Jackson in 2017 and then snagged a job as a statewide minority affairs coordinator with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican.

His campaign platform for mayor in 2017 was "Safety First," which was coupled with his demand for more officers on the streets and in city neighborhoods, something that the new Civil Rights Movement that has taken off since Floyd's murder by police opposes.

"I don't care if they picket the mayor's home," said Reed, "the question is what is the mayor going to do about crime in the city?"

He said he cannot support defunding the police because he is not clear on the concept.

"What do activists mean by defunding the police and I would love to meet with them to discuss the issue," said Reed, who is Black and was first elected to city council in 1999, ultimately representing the Mt Pleasant, Union-Miles and Mill Creek Falls neighborhoods.

He would not confirm or deny whether he will make another run for mayor in 2021, and Jackson will not rule out a run either.

Sources say that Jackson will likely run for a fifth term next year and that Reed will try to unseat him, again.

A Democrat like Jackson and all 17 members of city council, Reed said the city is on its way to a historic number of homicides this year, beyond the 101 current homicides to likely more that 150 killings by the end of December.

"Cleveland averages about 10 homicides a month," said Reed, "and with nearly four more months to go this year we should expect a record number of homicides for 2021."

Reed said that Jackson needs "to come up with a a plan to deal with the violence in the city."

Given Cleveland's history of excessive force killings against Blacks, including Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in 2012, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson in 2014, and a pending consent decree implemented in 2015 with the U.S. Department of Justice for police reforms, yesterday's protest against the mayor was not at all surprising, sources have said.

Asked his views on excessive force by Cleveland police, Reed said that police who do wrong should be "reprimanded, fired or prosecuted."

But he also said that too often people expect police officers to be all things to all people.

They expect police to independently solve, social, societal and psychological ills," said Reed. "And that is unrealistic."

Cleveland, like a host of other major urban cities, is experiencing heightened crime in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic that has crippled the nation and has had its biggest impact on the Black community, which has been disproportionately affected.

Last month President Donald Trump, with support from Mayor Jackson and Police Chief Williams, who is Black, announced that Cleveland is among some 11 cities that federal troops will monitor behind the increase in the crime rate and May 30 riots in the downtown section of the city during protest for justice for George Floyd,

The initiative, entitled "Operation Legend" includes, in addition to Cleveland, the cities of Portland and Chicago, New York, Albuquerque, Kansas City, Detroit and Milwaukee, actions in Portland and Chicago drawing criticism for the harassment by federal troops of innocent activists and protesters.

Black activists have picketed over federal troops coming into Cleveland as the media hardly covered the protest to allegedly protect the president as he continues to buy mainstream media advertisement as the November general election nears, Trump to square off with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2020 19:52

Updated: Black children at risk for lack of resources as Cleveland's public schools to reopen online for first 9 weeks of the 2020-2021 academic school year, the school district of which is under mayoral control per state law-.By editor Kathy Coleman

14 August 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland schools CEO Dr. Eric Gordon (wearing blue and white patterned shirt), Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing grey tie)and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (wearing solid teal tie)

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio –Cleveland's K-12 schools will open via remote (online) learning the first nine weeks of the 2020-2021 academic school year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep through Ohio and the nation, the virus re-spiking in late June in spite of hopes that the curve would flatten.

And while educational policy makers say it was inevitable, others worry about risk factors relative to the city's poor and Black school children, if not all of them in general, and regarding the impact of remote learning in urban school districts like Cleveland, not only in terms of food security and educational outcomes, but also as to equal access to online educational resources.

Cleveland schools CEO Dr. Eric Gordon said that school district officials had hoped for a hybrid model of both online and in person classes but opted otherwise, sources saying the decision came following complaints and safety concerns from district parents and the Cleveland Teachers Union.

Gordon said it is not clear when or if the schools will reopen on a regular basis anytime soon.

Poor Cleveland schools families, a disproportionate number of them Black, remain concerned about remote learning after preparing for a school year with onsite free lunch and breakfast, school district officials not saying whether alternative measures will be taken to feed the city's poor children when schools are closed due to a pandemic.

Education advocates also say that poor kids and Black kids are being denied adequate remote learning resources, some of them denied individual computers from the school district and other necessary amenities.

The largely Black public school district once under a desegregation court order for discriminating against Black children and their families is led by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson per a state law that took effect in 1998, the year the desegregation of schools ended in Cleveland.

Cleveland voters later sanctioned it by way of a referendum.

The mayoral control law eliminated an elected school board and handed control of the schools to the city mayor, then Michael R. White, the city's second Black mayor who was succeeded into office by Jane Campbell, the first woman mayor of Cleveland, and of whom Jackson, then a city council president, ousted in 2005 with the help of Black leaders.

A four-term Black Democratic mayor up for reelection in 2021, Jackson also appoints school board members under the applicable state law, and while critics complain that Whites run too much in a largely Black school district under Jackson's leadership over the schools, he is credited with minimizing the chaos that came with an elected school board, activists still against mayoral control of the schools as stripping residents of an opportunity to vote on an elected school board.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine closed all public, private, voucher and charter K-12 schools in Ohio temporarily in March for in-person classes when the pandemic broke and then for the remainder of the academic school year a month later.

Hence, academic learning occurred solely online, except relative to special situations.

At the time the governor said his decision to keep the schools closed followed advice from educators and public health officials and that “we have flattened the curve, but it remains dangerous.”

But the curve never really flattened and DeWine has since said that individual school districts should decide the course of school openings this academic school year using state guidelines and subject to Ohio Department of Education mandates, and other authorities.

Ohio has reported more than 105,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 3,755 deaths since the pandemic broke in the United States more than four months ago.

Worldwide there are currently more than 20.9 million confirmed cases and some 760,000 deaths, with the U.S. accounting for some 5.3 million confirmed cases, and 167,000 deaths.

Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs, has reported 12, 881 confirmed cases and 482 deaths.

Cleveland recorded 75 new coronavirus cases on June 28, the highest single day figure since the height of the pandemic in early April, a figure that that day brought the total number of cases since the pandemic broke out in early March to 2,245 cases.

President Trump, a Republican like DeWine, and his political ally, has vacillated on the issue of school re-openings and had announced he would withhold federal funds if schools did not open nationwide this year, though he recognizes that his powers are limited on state and local level issues regarding America's K-12 schools.

Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2020 13:40

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