By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com

AKON, Ohio- President Barack Obama (pictured) will visit Akron, Oh. on Wednesday where NBA great LeBron James (pictured) is a native, a city some 35 miles south of Cleveland that has a  Black residential section with constituents that are now  part of Congresswoman Marcia Fudge's 11th congressional district.

He will also make a stop in Mansfield, Oh. as part of his campaign tour.

Obama for America campaign officials did not say in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com on the upcoming visit whether James will join the president in Akron, though the basketball star did campaign for Obama in 2008, the year he won election as America's first Black president.

The president comes to the Cleveland area for a third time this summer.

By Gwendolyn Riase (pictured), Contributing Writer (Editor's note: The below article is that of Gwendolyn Riase and not necessarily the opinion or position of Cleveland Urban News.Com or the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News.Com. Her comments are her opinion and are not meant to serve as any legal, financial or other advice)

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Most of us keep a sharp eye out for potholes on the road. It can really cost you big bucks to replace your tires, rims and hubcaps. These are literal potholes. But there are also financial “potholes” that will devour you and all your money without a watchful eye for them, as well. Here are two to consider:

Lump Sum Settlements – Let’s say you sued someone and won a sum of money that is to be paid monthly or yearly until it is paid to you in full. Or you have an inheritance or win the lottery. You may have a large sum of money coming to you, but you’ll only be paid in small amounts (yearly or monthly) over a number of years. Some companies are willing to offer you a large lump sum of money now so you don’t have to wait before you’re paid in full. Of course, the lump sum is a much smaller amount than what is due to you.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com

LONDON, England-Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha (pictured in boxing gear) got closer to a gold metal and made the Cleveland schools and America proud with a third round knockout at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Saturday of his opponent, Armenia's Andranik Hakobvan.

A middleweight division fighter, Gausha, 24, is among the 16 remaining amateur boxers out of the original 32 to advance to the quarter finals and will box again at 9:30 am on Thursday against Indian matinee idol Vijender.

"He knocked him out and you don't see that much in Olympic boxing," said Michael Nelson, an entrepreneur who owns the restaurant The Kitchen, and Lil Africa, a party and versatility building at 69th St and Superior Ave in Cleveland where Gausha had sparred in practice and regular boxing matches. "He is just another example of the Black males that graduate from the Cleveland Municipal School District and go on to make us proud."

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor

CLEVELAND, Ohio-The newly found relationship between Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich and a select group of Cleveland area Democratic Black elected officials and civic leaders has some other Black people in a quandary.

The Black state legislators from Cleveland, at least two Blacks on Cuyahoga County Council, controversial Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, some Cleveland councilpersons, and Black civic leaders such as Cleveland NAACP former president George Forbes, its current president James Hardiman, and Cleveland Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference Executive Director the Rev. E.T. Caviness are being called out by Black men upset with the Kasich-Black -leaders- are -my -friends thing.

"Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed voter suppression bills with targeted habits of African-Americans and Cleveland's Black politicians heap praise on him," said Richard 'Dick' Peery (pictured in brown), a retired Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper reporter who was a union steward at the newspaper and is long time community activist. "Don't they know they are committing suicide by kowtowing to the man who crippled the voters that send them to office and who will be needed and missed by President Obama in November?" (Editor's note:  The voter suppression statute in Ohio slashes early voting by two weeks, among other provisions, mandates that Civil Rights activists and Black elected officials of Ohio such as 11th congressional district congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge  say targets minorities, poor people and the elderly)

John Boyd (pictured in Black), a community activist too and a Cleveland Ward 6 precinct committeeman who has run unsuccessfully for Cleveland City Council and Cuyahoga County Council, said that the Black leaders and elected officials at issue "are spineless and have short memories."

And Peery's nephew, Anthony Peery, told Cleveland Urban News.Com that "they've been bought by the neo-liberal Blacks that we were warned about in the 1990s."

Kasich (pictured third), 60, was in Cleveland last week for the ceremonial signing of a criminal records sealing law that recently passed the Republican controlled state legislature and was sponsored by state senators Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland) and Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati).