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Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly wins the Nevada caucuses, continuing his surge as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president----By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

23 February 2020

Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-LAS VEGAS Nevada-

Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses Saturday, continuing his surge to first place as the front runner for the Democratic nomination for president behind winning in New Hampshire on Feb. 11, and taking second place in the Iowa caucuses a week earlier.

According to unofficial election results, at press time Sanders was winning Nevada with 46% of the vote followed by Joe Biden at 20 %.

Pete Buttgieg is third at 15%, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is currently in fourth place with 10% of the vote.

In his quest to secure the Democratic nomination for president the Vermont senator is exceeding previous front runner former president Biden nationally among Democratic voters, and by double digits, Biden a former vice president under Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and President Donald Trump's predecessor.

The seasoned United States senator, 78, has launched a nationwide grassroots campaign to effectively outdo his Democratic opponents, the winner poised to run against incumbent Trump in November, Trump a Republican real estate mogul and former television personality seeking a second term in office.

The Feb 19 Quinnipiac University poll that has Sanders leading the national race for the Democratic nomination was conducted after his first place showing in New Hampshire and his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses a week earlier behind Buttigieg. The poll has him with support from 32% of Democratic voters, a 16-point lead over Biden, who is at 16% and continues to struggle to regain his front-runner status.

In third place nationally is Michael Bloomberg at 14%, followed by Warren at 12%, and Buttigieg, who won the Iowa caucuses, at 8 %.

U.S. Sen Amy Klobuchar is at 7% nationally, with the remaining five candidates polling at less than 3%.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog, both of them top in Black digital news in the Midwest. 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, 23 February 2020 20:31

Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones, journalist Eric Brewer to speak February 22, 2020 at the Cleveland African American Museum for the free Black History Month series of events that also included Common Pleas Judge Wanda Jones as a speaker

22 February 2020

Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher

CLEVELANDURBANEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, OHIO— The Cleveland African American Museum, as part of a month -long Black History Month series, will host Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones and local journalist and former Cleveland mayoral candidate Eric Brewer as event speakers, Brewer also the former mayor of East Cleveland, an impoverished largely Black suburb of Cleveland.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE OF THE CLEVELAND AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM FOR MORE INFORMATION

The free event, which will be held at the museum in Ward 7 on Crawford Road on the city's east side, is Sat, Feb 22. from 6:30-pm-8:30 pm

Brewer will discuss the legacy of Paul Roberson and Councilman Jones, whose majority Black east side Ward 1 is the second largest voting bloc in the city behind Ward 17, will discuss city government and necessary reforms.

A premier Black journalist and publisher who has launched a series of Cleveland area newspapers over the years, including Cleveland life, which he edited, and the Challenger, which he published, Brewer began his writing career as a young reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most read Black print newspaper.

He is self-made and is considered a brilliant investigative by applicable standards, and he currently edits and publishes EJBNEWS.COM.

Other Black history month events at the museum include discussions on the Hough Riots of Cleveland, Black history from a local perspective, and a gala on Feb 29 at 6:30 pm, the only event that costs at $35 a ticket, that will recognize museum officials and board members with activist Genevieve Mitchell as the keynote speaker that evening.

The first 16 people to the gala on Feb. 29, which is also $50 per couple, get in for $15.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Wanda Jones, who is Black, was also a speaker this month at the museum, and spoke on procedural justice.

"All are welcome to the museum's Black history month series as we highlight the contributions of Black and African people and remember important people and events if the history of the African diaspora., said museum executive director Frances Caldwell.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog, which are also top in the Midwest in Black digital news.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, 23 February 2020 19:01

NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio announces endorsements for Ohio House and Senate for Ohio's March 17, 2020 primary election

19 February 2020

Kathy

By Kellie Copeland, executive director, NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio-NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, the state's leading advocate for reproductive freedom, today announced its endorsements for the March 17, 2020 primary election.

Additional endorsements for the November general election will be announced later this year.

All endorsements are listed on the NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio website

Last session, the Ohio House and Senate passed legislation that would have outlawed abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Twenty members of the current Ohio House have co-sponsored legislation that would subject people who access abortion care to the death penalty. Pro-choice

Ohioans can count on our endorsed legislative candidates to stand up against these dangerous proposals. Our endorsed candidates are committed to policies that will improve access to quality affordable reproductive health care in our state.

Over the last decade, 23 attacks on reproductive health care have been enacted, and half of the abortion clinics in Ohio have closed. As a result, some Ohioans have fled our state to access abortion, others have had to wait weeks for an appointment, and still others have been forced to continue pregnancies against their will — regardless of the dangers posed to their health and wellbeing. This has to stop.

Ohioans need and deserve elected officials who will stand up and fight to protect access to abortion care in our communities without political interference, judgment, or delay.

Note: In some districts, multiple candidates scored equally well. NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio has endorsed all listed candidates in those races.

For the Ohio Senate

District 2 Reem Subei and Joel O'Dorsio
District 4 Kathy Wyenandt
District 6 Mark Fogel
District 8 Dan Brown
District 12 Ken Poling
District 16 Mark Bailey, Troy Doucet, Eric Connelly, and Crystal Lett
District 18 Betsey Rader
District 24 Tom Jackson
District 28 Sen. Vernon Sykes
District 30 Michael Fletcher

For the Ohio House

District 1 Alison Theiss
District 3 Laurel Johnson
District 6 Rep. Phillip Robinson
District 8 Rep. Kent Smith
District 9 Rep. Janine Boyd
District 12 Rep. Juanita Brent
District 13 Rep. Michael Skindell
District 14 Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney
District 16 Monique Smith and Joe Romano
District 17 Rep. Adam Miller
District 18 Rep. Kristin Boggs
District 19 Rep. Mary Lightbody
District 22 Rep. David Leland
District 24 Rep. Allison Russo
District 25 Kofi Nsia-Pepra
District 26 Rep. Erica Crawley
District 31 Rep. Brigid Kelly
District 32 Rep. Catherine Ingram
District 35 Rep. Tavia Galonski
District 36 AJ Harris
District 37 Rep. Casey Weinstein
District 38 Joe Campbell
District 39 Willis Blackshear, Jr.
District 41 Cate Berger
District 45 Rep. Lisa Sobecki
District 54 Morgan Showen
District 55 Zach Stepp
District 57 Dara Adkison
District 58 Rep. Michele Lepore-Hagan
District 59 Chris Stanley
District 61 Adam Dudziak
District 65 Alan Darnowsky
District 67 Rachael Morocco
District 69 Donna Beheydt
District 70 Kevin Barnet
District 73 Kim McCarthy
District 75 Rep. Randi Clites
District 76 Garrett Westhoven
District 79 Cynthia Richards
District 84 Joe Monbeck
District 86 Tiffanie Roberts
District 91 Scott Dailey
District 94 Katie O'Neill
District 99 Richard Dana

NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio endorses 100% pro-choice candidates who have satisfactorily completed our rigorous questionnaire. NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio is committed to protecting the full range of reproductive health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing safe, legal abortion.

Endorsements in federal races are made by our national partner, NARAL Pro-Choice America. Those endorsements will be listed on our website as those announcements are made later this year.

Last Updated on Friday, 21 February 2020 14:01

Cleveland TV 5 evening and nightly news anchor Danita Harris reassigned to morning news anchor and Black activists want to know if her evening and nightly replacement will be a Black woman too

17 February 2020

Kathy

CLEVELANDURBANEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, OHIO— Longtime Cleveland Channel 5 news anchorwoman and reporter Danita Harris, who is Black, has been reassigned and will anchor Good Morning Cleveland, effective March 23, station officials announced Monday, which is less responsibility from anchoring the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts where Harris worked alongside co-anchor Rob Powers and Power of 5 Chief Meteorologist Mark Johnson.

A spokesperson for Channel 5 told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com that Harris' replacement for the evening and nightly news has not yet been chosen.

“Our viewers have had a relationship with Danita that runs 20-plus years, and her community roots and community service run deep,” said Steve Weinstein, vice president and general manager at News 5. “She’s not only a terrific anchor and award-winning journalist but a strong community leader and advocate as well. We’re excited that our morning viewers can start their day with Danita, Katie, and Trent.”

In response to her new assignment, Harris, married to a Black preacher and mother to a four-year-old, said that she "can’t wait to rise and shine with Northeast Ohioans at a new time.”

Harris tweeted that her new assignment "allows me to connect with all of you as you get your day started and gives me more quality time with my son Chase, he is my heart."

Cleveland activists women said they want to know whether another Black woman will be considered to replace Danita Harris as evening and nightly anchor for News 5 in Cleveland.

"We look forward to watching Danita Harris on the morning news and are watching to see who will replace this Black woman as evening and nightly news anchor at Channel 5 in Cleveland ," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black woman and former public school biology teacher who leads Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland and International Women's Day March Cleveland. "And we call for more Black female anchors at mainstream television stations that serve Cleveland, a largely Black major American city."

Harris co-anchored Good Morning Cleveland from 2000-2006, before she joined the 6pm forecast with Ted Henry.

And after 15 years as a daily newscaster and some twenty years with TV 5 she will join co-anchor Katie Ussin and Power of 5 Meteorologist Trent Magill starting Monday, March 23.

A native of Chester, PA and an ordained minister, Harris worked for Black Entertainment Television Network and WJLA-ABC7 in Washington, DC early on in her career.

She is an Ohio Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee in 2010 and earned several industry awards during her tenure at News 5.

In late 2019, the station reports, Harris was recognized by MetroHealth with a “SHEROE” award for her work with S.H.I.N.E., a spiritually-based organization that helps women achieve their goals.

Harris also recently received a “Doing Well by Doing Good” honor from station owner E.W. Scripps for her accomplishments with S.H.I.N.E.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 08:05

Free tickets to see Jane Fonda at Ohio's Kent State University are all gone, the university paying a $83,000 price tag for the visit by the actress, Civil Rights and women's rights advocate, fitness guru,and author.....Read Fonda's biography here

16 February 2020

Kathy

Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray

Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659 0473. Emai;: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM,KENT, Ohio- Free tickets to see Jane Fonda speak at Kent State University during the 50th commemoration of May 4, 1970, some 4,000 of them, are gone, the actress, philanthropist, author, Civil Rights and women's rights advocate, and fitness guru snagging $83,000 for her visit and will discuss her activism and specifics of the historic day in May of 1970 when the Ohio National Guard killed four students on the campus and injured nine others in retaliation for them protesting the Vietnam War.

University and student organizers said tickets were snatched up in less than two days and that Fonda's visit is among a host of university sponsored activists that week to commemorate the Kent State University tragedy, including round-table discussions, a free concert, and other speaking guests.

An anti-war activist arrested for what she says have been unnecessary wars, including her arrest in Cleveland in 1970, Fonda's biography is as follows:

Having enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress, Jane Fonda now focuses much of her time on activism and social change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). Fonda chairs this statewide effort to reduce the high rates of adolescent pregnancy in Georgia through community, youth and family development, training of professionals who work with adolescents, and legislative advocacy. Fonda has long been known for activism and advocacy on environmental issues, human rights, and the empowerment of women and girls.

Fonda is a member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations; The board of Women’s Media Center, which she helped found in 2004 with Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, and Jessica Neuwirth; and she sits on the board of V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women begun in 1998 by Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues.”

In 1994, Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. In 2000, Fonda traveled to Nigeria and produced a film, in collaboration with the International Women’s Health Coalition, entitled “Generation 2000: Changing Girls’ Realities.”

Fonda was born in New York City in 1937, the daughter of Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour Fonda. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College. In her late teens, Fonda studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and became a member of the Actors Studio in New York.

Her subsequent work on stage and screen earned numerous nominations and awards, including Oscars (Best Actress in 1971 for “Klute” and in 1978 for “Coming Home”) and an Emmy for her performance in The Dollmaker. Along with starring roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions, Fonda also took on responsibilities as a film and television producer. Her credits include Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, Rollover, On Golden Pond, The Morning After and The Dollmaker.

Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of Jane Fonda’s Workout in 1982. She followed with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and five books – selling 16 million copies all together. The original Jane Fonda’s Workout video remains the top grossing home video of all time.

In May 2005, Random House published Fonda’s memoirs, “My Life So Far,” which immediately went to #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list. That same spring “Monster-in-Law,” her first film in 15 years, also became the #1 box office hit making Fonda the first person to simultaneously have a #1 book and #1 movie. Fonda’s most recent film, Georgia Rule, opened in spring 2007.

Fonda is an avid reader, hiker, fly fisher woman and yoga enthusiast. She lives in Atlanta, along with her daughter Vanessa Vadim, and her two grandchildren. Her son, Troy Garity, lives in Los Angeles and is an actor.

Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray

Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659 0473. Emai;: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

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Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones, journalist Eric Brewer to speak February 22, 2020 at the Cleveland African American Museum for the free Black History Month series of events that also included Common Pleas Judge Wanda Jones as a speaker

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