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Funeral services announced for former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who was Black and died of COVID-19, Cain a die hard President Trump supporter....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

06 August 2020

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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.

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ATLANTA, Georgia — Funeral services have been announced for former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 2012 and a former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become a hard-core supporter of current President Donald Trump.

Cain died last Thursday of complications from the coronavirus.

He was 74.

A public viewing is set for Thursday, Aug. 6, from 4-7p.m. at Alfonso Dawson Mortuary, which is located at 3000 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW in Atlanta, Georgia where Cain resided with his longtime wife, Gloria.

Also an Atlanta radio show host, Cain had reportedly been ill since June 29 from the coronavirus after he attended Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20 and, like the president and several other Trump campaign supporters at the rally, did not wear a mask.

And while it has not been confirmed that he contracted the virus at the Trump campaign rally in June, pundits say it raises questions about the wisdom of the president in putting campaign affiliates like Cain at risk, Cain obviously attending the Tulsa event without a mask per Trump's possible suggestions, and in spite of being up in age and a cancer survivor.

Several staffers were infected with the virus following the Tulsa rally, but none fatal.

Cain was co-chair of Blacks for Trump, a voter outreach initiative that targets the Black community and the Black vote as the president continues to struggle relative to his reelection bid in a fight against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the front runner, and a former vice president.

Only momentarily considered a viable candidate in 2012 in which Mitt Romney won the Republican nomination but lost the general election to then president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, the long-shot Cain had hoped that his candidacy for president would ultimately make him the first Black GOP president.

But his mediocre campaign was sidelined by claims of sexual harassment of women in and out of the work place, claims he denied that, nonetheless, saw his dismal campaign numbers drop tremendously.

Political pundits said he just did not have what it took to be president, and that he could not rise up under pressure from the media on policy-making matters crucial to his political platform.

He was a Black Republican and he continued to embrace the conservative wing of the Republican Party, even though, from a traditional standpoint, Black voters in general have supported the liberal-minded Democratic agenda.

Cain is survived by his wife of 52 years, Gloria Cain, two grown children, Melanie and Vincent, and four grandchildren.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:19

Ohio judge upholds governor's ban on liquor sales after 10 pm at bars and restaurants in Ohio as a legal battle ensues during a re-spiking of the coronavirus pandemic.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

06 August 2020

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Pictured is Ohio Governor Mike DeWine

COLUMBUS, Ohio- A Franklin County common pleas judge has upheld a new rule imposed by the Ohio Liquor Control Commission at the request of Gov Mike DeWine that requires that liquor sales at bars and restaurants in Ohio, practically all but over the counter liquor stores, which generally close by 11 pm in Ohio, stop selling liquor at 10 pm, a ruling that comes in response to a lawsuit filed Aug. 4 by a group of bar and restaurant establishments in the Columbus area.

Under the new rule, last call is at 10 pm, though bar and restaurant patrons can continue finishing their drinks until 11 pm.

Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Kim Brown denied the injunction request filed against DeWine and the liquor commission by lawyers for the bars and restaurants.

Sources say it is just the beginning of a long legal fight over what authority government officials truly have during a pandemic over businesses and other establishments, and in general.

Pins Mechanical and 16-Bit Bar and Arcade, which has a location in Lakewood, a neighboring city to Cleveland, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Court, a general division court in Ohio that sits in Columbus, the state's capital.

A Democrat, Brown said in her ruling that the Ohio Liquor Control Commission has the authority to regulate the bars and restaurants and to determine operating hours, the argument offered by DeWine and state officials.

But Judge Brown did not answer the question in her ruling of exactly how far the governor can arbitrarily extend his powers during a public health crisis, and whether DeWine's order, that has outright enraged some bar and restaurant owners in Ohio, is overreaching, and overly intrusive.

Masks must also be worn in public in Ohio, DeWine has ordered.

Ultimately, a precedent setting lawsuit is expected in federal court to test the constitutionality of DeWine's actions regarding the limiting of liquor sales in establishments throughout the state, which took effect July 31, and the actions of the liquor commission, sources said, state officials arguing, without any true specifics, that they have a constitutional right to make-up laws as they please because of the magnitude of the virus.

And it is the federal court that will likely decide what if any constitutional question exists in the controversial dispute that will, no doubt, have far reaching implications, an appeals court likely to have the last word on the issue, legal pundits have said.

Franklin County is the largest of Ohio's 88 counties and includes Columbus, the state's largest city, Cleveland, which sits in Cuyahoga County, the second largest of Ohio's cities.

The liquor restrictions come at a time when bars and late night restaurants have become a problem in fighting the coronavirus and liquor sales have increased in Ohio and nationwide relative to the outbreak, which hit the U.S. in March.

According to data from the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control, more than 1,450,000 gallons of liquor were sold in March alone, a 26% increase from February.

On the national level, and according to market research by the Nielsen firm, liquor sales are up more than 55% across the country and beer has seen at least a 66% jump, wine sales increasing by more than 42 percent in comparison to this time last year.

Earlier this year the governor issued an order temporarily prohibiting the sale of alcohol in six of Ohio's 88 counties to out-of state buyers and only to in-state buyers who display a valid Ohio driver's license, aggressive action taken in response to the coronavirus outbreak and an influx of buyers from Pennsylvania to Ohio, both states with a stay-at-home order at the time.

The impacted counties were Columbiana, Jefferson, Belmont, Trumbull, Mahoning and Astabula, all which border Pennsylvania.

A Republican and President Donald Trump ally, and a former U.S. senator and Ohio attorney general, DeWine said then that, "those who are coming in to buy liquor are creating a health hazard and that’s something we have to take action on."

Ohio has reported more than 96,000 confirmed cases and 3,596 deaths as the nation faces a re-spiking of the virus.

The deadly virus for which there is no vaccine has spread to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and the nation has nearly 4.8 million reported cases and some 159,000 people dead, worldwide figures showing that there are 18.8 million cases globally and roughly 706,000 deaths.

More than 55 million Americans remain out of work due to the crippling pandemic.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog 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 Thursday, 06 August 2020 18:28

Black children at risk 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 Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

05 August 2020

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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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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

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.

The mayoral control law eliminated an elected school board and handed control of the schools to the city mayor.

Cleveland voters later sanctioned it by way of a referendum.

Jackson, a four-term Black Democratic mayor up for reelection in 2021, also appoints school board members under the applicable state law.

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 95,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 3,570 deaths since the pandemic broke in the United States more than four months ago.

Worldwide there are currently more than 18.4 million confirmed cases and some 700,000 deaths, with the U.S. accounting for some 4.9 million confirmed cases, and 159,000 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.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog 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 Wednesday, 05 August 2020 16:16

Cleveland FOX 8 meteorologist and animal rights advocate Dick Goddard has died at 89, Goddard's law of which increased penalties for animal cruelty in Ohio and was named after the legendary Goddard, who spent more than 5 decades with WJW TV- 8

04 August 2020

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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-Famed Cleveland FOX 8 News meteorologist and animal rights activist Dick Goddard, who spent more than 5 decades with WJW TV-8 before retiring from the station in 2016 and began his television career at Cleveland Channel 3 News in 1960, has died at 89.

One of the most respected and admired meteorologist in Cleveland's history alone, Goddard died Tuesday morning at his home in Florida.

He had tested positive for COVID-19.

His daughter Kim Goddard posted news of her father's death on Facebook Tuesday and wrote, "My hero, my daddy, the greatest animal lover is now an angel."

An Akron native and Cleveland broadcast legend, Goddard was an avid animal lover and used his media pulpit to advocate for the rights of animals, the state legislature, per a bill introduced by former representative Bill Patmon of Cleveland, adopting Goddard's Law in 2016, the year Goddard retired.

The animal's right law, opposed by some activists as increasing penalties against the Black community, heightened the penalty in Ohio for animal cruelty from a misdemeanor to a felony.

"Cruelty to animals is excusable, and illegal, Patmon, a conservative-leaning Cleveland Democrat, told

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com when he was advocating for Goddard's Law as a state legislator, the bill that then Gov John Kasich, a controversial Republican and unsuccessful candidate for president in 2016, signed into law four years ago.

Under Goddard, and with the help of Fox 8, hundreds of homeless dogs were adopted and given good homes, the practice of which continues on FOX 8 in Cleveland to this day.

Last Updated on Thursday, 06 August 2020 02:17

Biden leads over Trump in Ohio as Black women dominate his VP shortlist, and here are the Black women in the running as Biden vets his vice president running mate choice....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

03 August 2020

Kathy

Pictured are U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (wearing black), U.S. Representative Val Demings (wearing red), former national security advisor Susan Rice (wearing yellow), Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (wearing powder blue, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Representative Karen Bass (wearing red and white)

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As polls show Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden just four points ahead of President Donald Trump in Ohio, both Democrats and Republicans alike are patiently awaiting his pick for vice president on his presidential ticket, and sources say that Black women dominate his short list.

An announcement from the former vice president who served under Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, is expected before he accepts the Democratic nomination during the Democratic National Convention beginning the week of Aug. 17 in Milwaukee.

Biden said during a recent campaign rally in his home state of Delaware that he would make a choice by "the first week in August."

He has promised a woman, and possibly a Black woman, or a woman of color in general.

U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Tammy Duckworth, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Rep. Val Demings of Florida, former national security adviser Susan Rice, and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham are reportedly the major short list contenders, though Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep Karen Bass of California has since become a key contender on Biden's short list.

Some 12 women were in the running, and even more have been considered, insiders say, Biden even establishing a committee to help him vet the prospective VP's.

Harris, Bottoms, Demings, Rice and Bass are all Black, Bass, 67, emerging as a favorite after being seen as a steady hand representing the CBC during the crafting of CARES Act legislation by Congress in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to sweep the nation.

A former California attorney general and Obama ally who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, Harris is the front-runner as to Biden's VP pick and is the best known of the Black women seeking to make history as the first Black female ever to run for vice president on a major political party ticket in America.

She made a name for herself by effectively challenging Biden during the First Democratic Debate on race and segregationist policies he embraced as a longtime former U.S. senator.

But Demings is a firecracker too, taking on the former vice president as crossing the line when he publicly said as a guest on a millennia radio show that Black people aren't Black if they don't vote for him, a comment seen by Black leaders as arrogant and over the top, and one he later apologized for.

And Bottoms had no problem battling the Republican governor of Georgia after they issued conflicting orders over wearing masks in public during the cornavious pandemic, Bottoms going against Gov. Brian Kemp, who said he would not order that masks be worn in public and that the determination should be optional.

Also a former ambassador to the United Nations, Rice, as Obama's national security advisor, was a no-nonsense and brilliant addition to the then president's team, pundits said, though she too could be controversial.

The former vice president officially clinched the Democratic nomination in early June and will face President Trump for the 2020 presidential election in November, Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.

He needed 1,991 of the 3,979 pledged delegates to claim the nomination, which he surpassed

Winning the nomination was all but ensured when Biden's closest opponent dropped out of the race, U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist Democrat who was making his second bid for president after losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.

During his bid this time around for the Democratic nomination Sanders, as was Biden, was effective in narrowing the more than 28 Democratic candidates down to the two of them.

Sanders nearly won Iowa, coming in second place to Pete Buttigieg, who left the race and announced his endorsement of Biden.

Sanders went on to win New Hampshire and Nevada.

But Biden, powered by the Black vote and an endorsement from Black U.S. Rep James Clyburn, subsequently won South Carolina, and Super Tuesday, and never looked back.

How much influence Clyburn has on Biden's choice of a running mate remains to be seen, Clyburn publicly saying, without hesitation, that he prefers an African-American woman on the Democratic ticket.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 August 2020 12:53

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