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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Hundreds of people packed the Lil' Africa Party Center in Cleveland Thurs. evening to hear Cuyahoga County prosecutor hopefuls Subodh Chandra, Stephanie Hall, James J. McDonnell and Robert Triozzi debate and listen to concerns from the Black and grassroots communities about the county's most powerful political office, one with the authority to recommend grand jury indictments on felony criminal charges, among other powers.

Situated at 68th St and Superior Ave. in the heart of Cleveland's inner city, Lil Africa is where Blacks often go for cabarets, celebrations like Kwanzaa, and political events for prominent politicians like Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.

ROCKY RIVER-Ohio- Judith Pugley, a retired professional and supporter of Civil Rights, wrote Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman online News Blog. Com on what 2011 brought to the community from the convictions of serial killer Anthony Sowell on numerous counts for the murders of 11 Black women to malicious prosecutions of Black women and girls by the predominantly Black city of Cleveland.

A White woman in the struggle, Pugsley supports issues impacting disenfranchised groups like minorities, including her work in campaigning to seek to repeal Ohio House Bill 194, the voter suppression state law with stringent voting requirements like reduced early voting and i.d. voting that Democrats, Civil Rights organizations and Black leaders hope voters will overturn at the ballot box in November.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As grassroots factions such as The Imperial Women Coalition, in cooperation with the Audacity of H.O.P.E Foundation , The Cleveland African-American Museum Cleveland City Council members, and other community affiliates, prepare for a candidate's debate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor on Thurs. Jan. 5 from 5:30 pm. to 8:00 pm at Lil Africa Party Center at 6816 Superior Ave in Cleveland, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's Largest Newspaper, is fighting with county prosecutor Bill Mason and the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper on whether the county prosecutor should be appointed rather than elected.

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Less than a week after U.S. Rep Marcia Fudge (D-11) announced her bid for reelection and snatched endorsements from nearly all of the Democratic elected officials from her 11th Congressional District including a host of mayors, members of the state legislature , and Cleveland and Akron city council members, the Republican controlled state legislature passed controversial HB 369, a state law of Ohio's revised map of 16 new congressional districts.

EUCLID, Ohio-At its Dec 7. meeting the Executive Committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party issued a no endorsement to the six candidates seeking its support that are vying to replace Bill Mason for county prosecutor, a man still with political influence who helped propel two of his assistant prosecutors to judgeship's in Nov.

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