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Black voters have broken early voting records in states such as Georgia, Maryland and California.....Get out the Black vote....Vote Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 if you have not already voted....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

02 November 2020

Kathy

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the 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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio- As the coronavirus surges, the last day to vote is Tuesday. Nov. 3, a presidential election year where President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will fight it out for the White House, and a challenging year for the country that has broken early voting records, some 96 million Americans voting early so far, either my mail or in person.

The pandemic that has plagued the country since early March continues to break records too, the U.S. breaking a world record Friday for infections with more than 100,000 confirmed cases in a single 24-hour period at 100, 233 cases, a CNN report says.

Ohio, a swing state for presidential elections, has seen some 2.3 million voters vote early, more than usual, and a trend seen in large part across the country.

Blacks voters are fired up too, data show.

Early voting has brought out a record one million voters in Georgia ahead of tomorrow's election, far more than the 286, 240 voters that came out in 2016 when Trump edged then opponent Hillary Clinton to win the presidency.

In Maryland, nearly 200,000 Blacks have already voted, compared to 18, 430 four years ago, California more than tripling its early voter turnout this year with nearly nine million returning ballots by mail alone.

This is in stark contrast to Black voter turnout in 2016, which saw a sharp decrease from 2012 when Barack Obama, the nations' first Black president, won reelection with Biden as his two-term vice president.

A PEW Research report says the Black voter turnout rate that year declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, falling to 59.6% in 2016 from 2012, and after reaching a record-high 66.6% in 2012, a nearly seven percent decrease.

The excitement for Black voters this time around began when Black America saw a chance to rid the White House of the controversial Trump and his anti-female racial rhetoric.

Two Blacks, U.S. Sens. Corey Booker and Kamala Harris, now the vice presidential candidate on the Biden ticket and the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, were among more than 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls and the only Blacks in the race.

Historically speaking, there has never been more than two Black candidates for the Democratic nomination for president on a national debate stage at one time, the last time in 2004 when former U.S. senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and of whom lost reelection after serving three terms in congress, and the Rev Al Sharpton were candidates.

Other Black candidates for the Democratic nomination over the years include the late and former New York congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black major party candidate for president, former Rep. Barbara Jordan, also deceased and the first Black elected to the Texas senate and the first Black southern Black woman elected to Congress, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

Only one Black, among both Democrats and Republicans, has reached the plateau of a presidential nominee of a major American political party, that being the charismatic Obama, a junior U.S. senator from Illinois when he toppled Republican John McCain to take home the presidency in 2008 in a historic election that rocked America.

Last Updated on Monday, 02 November 2020 20:27

Biden leads over Trump nationally, and in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa, states Trump won in 2016....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio

31 October 2020

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As the Nov. 3 presidential election nears, President Donald Trump lags behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by five percentage points in Ohio, Biden also leading in neighboring Pennsylvania, and in Florida and Iowa, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday reveals.

All four states are swing states Trump won in 2016, states also that Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor, won in 2008 and, in 2012 when he won reelection.

Biden also leads over Trump in national polls by eight points, 52-44 percent, a decrease from 10 points in October where he topped the president 53-43 percent.

According to a New York Times report, some 75 million Americans have already voted, either by mail or early in person.

The president's campaign, however, is eyeing Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nevada in hopes of an unlikely electoral college victory next month, the presidential election just three days away with Trump's biggest problem being his mishandling of the coronavirus.

Ohio has reported more than 213,000 confirmed cases and 5, 291 deaths since the pandemic broke out in the U.S. in early March, the growing pandemic worse now more than ever in America.

The deadly virus for which there is no vaccine has spread to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and the nation has nearly 9.2 million reported cases and some 230,000 people dead, worldwide figures showing that there are 45.5 million cases globally and roughly 1.2 million deaths.

There official unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is roughly at eight percent, which equates to about 12.6 million people, Blacks, who have been disproportionately impacted by the virus, with a rate double that of their White counterparts.

Last Updated on Sunday, 01 November 2020 14:34

Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. among 2020 Rock Hall inductees for the HBO special next week, the live induction ceremony originally scheduled for Cleveland where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum sits cancelled and replaced with the HBO special

29 October 2020

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Pictured are the late Whitney Houston and the late The Notorious B.I.G., both among the 2020 Rock Hall Class of inductees

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As the spike in coronavirus pandemic confirmed cases and deaths began ravaging the nation in early March, many events, including concert tours and theater and cinema movie productions, were pushed back to late summer and fall, and some have been cancelled altogether, including the live Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony originally scheduled for May 2 at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio.

Instead, an HBO special is set to air on cable television on Sat., Nov. 7, a widely anticipated event honoring this year’s Rock Hall class of inductees, namely Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and artist managers Jon Landau and Irving Azoff.

The exhibit devoted to this year’s class has been on display since Aug 14. at the Rock and Hall of Fame museum in downtown Cleveland.

The beautiful museum sits on the shore of Lake Erie and documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have influenced its development.

The 2021 inductions, the 36th annual event, will move to the fall and will take place in Cleveland next year, absent another coronavirus scare

Though the Rock Hall museum is located in Cleveland, a 58 percent Black city of some 385,000 people, the induction ceremonies were held in New York City.

This year's now cancelled live event, had it gone forward, marked a change in location from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to Public Auditorium in Cleveland.

The late R&B singer Whitney Houston, one of the best selling record artist of all time with estimated sales of 200 million records worldwide, is the only Black woman among this year's inductees and is likely the most famous of members of the 2020 Rock Hall class.

The late rapper, songwriter and music producer The Notorious. B.I.G. is the only Black male solo artist among the inductees this year.

Houston died in 2012 in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room of what was later determined a drowning precipitated by coronary artery disease and cocaine intoxication.

She was 48-years-old at the time of her death.

Born Chris George Wallace, The Notorious B.I.G., considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, was a young 24-years-old when he was gunned down in Los Angeles via a drive by shooting in March of 1997.

Last Updated on Saturday, 31 October 2020 06:54

Cleveland Imperial Ave Murders anniversary rally and march are Oct 29, 2020, 5pm on Imperial Ave where 11 Black women were murdered and 3 others raped by serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell

27 October 2020

Kathy

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists, elected officials, and community members in general, led by the Imperial Women Coalition, Peace in the Hood, and Black on Black Crime Inc., will host the anniversary rally and march relative to the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women on Thurs., Oct 29 at 5 pm on 12205 Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side. (Call the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473 for more information. Masks are required).

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The 11 women were strangled and murdered by serial killer Anthony Sowell, who sits on death row, Sowell raping three other Black women at his since demolished home on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant Neighborhood.

Activists will remember the 11 fallen women and other women subjected to heinous violence at Thursday's public event that will also denounce state and federal cuts to rape, domestic violence and other necessary services to women in Cleveland and nationwide during a pandemic and otherwise.

Activists say they will march from the nearby church near Imperial to the site where Sowell's house once stood and then rally and give speeches.

"We will remember the 11 Black women strangled and unmercifully murdered by serial killer Anthony Sowell as well as other murdered and missing Black women, and will denounce cuts at the state and federal levels to rape, domestic violence and other services for women, " said Imperial Women Coalition founder and Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman.

"I will be there and we will stand with women and protest with them at the Statehouse and elsewhere against these proposed state and federal cuts to rape and domestic violence services in our community" said Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, a Black longtime east side councilman

Domestic violence against women in Cleveland has increased by 35 percent during the pandemic, data show.

Other participating groups include the Cleveland Peacemakers, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, the Black Man's Army, the Brickhouse Wellness Center, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Find Our Children The Missing-Ebony Alert, the Laura Cowan Foundation, Refusefacism Ohio, Survivors and Victims of Tragedy, Carl Stokes Brigade, and the Coalition to Stop the Inhumanities in the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Oct. 29 marks the 11th year anniversary since 2009 when law enforcement authorities began pulling the first of what would ultimately become 11 dead Black bodies from and outside of Sowell's Imperial Avenue home.

Dead at the hands of serial killer Sowell are Tishana Culver, Leshanda Long, Michelle Mason, Tonia Carmichael, Nancy Cobbs, Amelda Hunter, Telacia Fortson, Janice Webb, Kim Yvette Smith, and Diane Turner.

Dubbed the 'Cleveland strangler," Sowell, 61, was convicted in 2011 by a Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas jury on 82 of 83 counts, including 11 counts of aggravated murder and three counts of rape.

Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose, the trial court judge who presided over Sowell's criminal case and a former Cleveland Browns football player, handed the serial killer a death sentence.

Six of the 11 murdered women were killed by Sowell after Cleveland police released him from custody in 2008 on a rape complaint, the serial killer arrested again in 2009 on a another rape complaint that stuck, but only after he murdered six more women.

Police also ignored missing persons reports filed by family members of the victims, allegedly because the victims were poor Black women.

Sowell and his lawyers have exhausted all appeals that sought to overturn his convictions and death sentence, including to the U.S. Supreme court, which refused to hear his case in 2017.

The city settled with the families of the six women murdered after Sowell was erroneously released from custody in 2008 in spite of a pending rape complaint with police for $1million, which was split between the six families.

Five other families that sued await settlement.

A former U.S. marine, Sowell served 15 years in prison for attempted rape prior to the Imperial Avenue Murders.

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, 28 October 2020 15:20

Justice Clarence Thomas symbolically swears in Amy Coney Barrett as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to address Obamacare, abortion, voting cases, etc-By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

27 October 2020

Kathy

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

WASHINGTON, D.C- The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, on Monday night confirmed the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump's third appointee behind Neil Gorsuch in 2017, and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

Coney Barrett will officially be sworn in on Oct. 27 at the court by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Her confirmation comes eight days before the Nov. 3 presidential election between President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, more than 62 million Americans already voting, either in person via early voting, or by mail.

Democrats, women's rights groups and Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, rallied against her confirmation, but to no avail. She was confirmed by the Senate 52-48, a party line vote with all Democrats opposing her bid to the high court, and all but one Republican supporting her controversial nomination.

Flanked by President Trump and her family members, Coney Barrett, 48, was symbolically sworn in Monday night on the South Lawn of the White House by fellow justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative and the only Black on the nation's highest court.

Her lifetime appointment to the court creates a 6-3 conservative majority.

"The oath that I have solemnly taken tonight means at its core that I will do my job without any fear or favor, and that I will do so independently of both the political branches and of my own preferences," a newly confirmed Justice Coney Barrett said.

A George H.W. Bush appointee, Thomas has a strained relationship with Black America, given his conservative stances and rulings that critics say marginalize Blacks, women and other disenfranchised groups.

His 90s confirmation hearings were marked by scandal and claims by Anita Hill of sexual harassment on the job, Hill testifying before the Senate during the hearings that Thomas, who called the proceedings a high tech lynching, harasses Black women.

Prior to her confirmation to the Supreme Court, Coney Barrett served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago from 2017 to 2020.

President Trump announced at a rally in North Carolina late last month that he would be nominating a woman to replace associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice appointed to the court by president Bill Clinton in 1993 who died Sept 18 following a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

"I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman," Trump said at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina in September before he announced that person would be Coney Barrett. "I think it should be a woman because I actually like women much more than men."

At her death Ginsburg, 87, was one of four liberals on the Supreme Court, and one of three females, along side of Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer, both of them liberals like Ginburg, and appointed by a Democratic president too, but by president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.

She was considered a judicial icon on issues ranging from abortion, voting and Civil Rights, to same sex marriage, immigration, healthcare, affirmative action and desegregation.

Coney Barrett will assume her seat on the court just one-week before the presidential election, Trump losing in national polls to Biden and in nearly all of the swing states. She will get to rule momentarily on challenges to election procedures and, within months, on whether to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature legislation, a negative decision of which will throw tens of thousands of people off healthcare.

Challenges to the upcoming election will also go before a supremely conservative court that will also hear property rights issues, voting discrepancies, and so many other matters consequential to women, the Black community and other vulnerable groups.

Coney Barrett has been outspoken against the Affordable Care Act and same sex marriage and this week she will join justices in ruling on whether they will take up a Mississippi case that could lead to the court subsequently overturning Roe. v. Wade, the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case that made abortion legal in America

In spite of opposition from Senate Democrats, her confirmation process was rushed, which is uncommon for a Supreme Court nominee.

According to the Congressional Research Service, the average number of days from nomination of a Supreme Court justice to final Senate vote since 1975 is 67 days or roughly two months, while the median is 71 days.

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 August 2022 17:57

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Biden leads over Trump nationally, and in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa, states Trump won in 2016....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio

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