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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Sondra Miller, president and CEO of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, is one of three keynote speakers and will share strategies to prevent sexual violence and discuss the Violence Against Women Act as well as necessary resources to seek to eradicate violence against women in greater Cleveland at the Fourth Annual Women's March Cleveland/Northeast Ohio 2020 event, which will be held Sat., Jan 18, 2020, beginning at 10:30 am on the outside steps of Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland.
Speeches are at 10:45 am, and will be followed by a noon march to Public Square.
The non-partisan anniversary event will also feature state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland and the Rev Tony Minor as keynote speakers, and state Sen Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, a women's rights advocate who pushes for public policy changes in the state legislature for the betterment of women and others, is the opening speaker.
Some 20 greater Cleveland activist groups participating and activists will also be among the speakers. Those groups, or group members, include Black on Black Crime Inc., Imperial Women Coalition, National Congress of Black Women Cleveland Chapter, Black Lives Matter, Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalist, International Women's Day March Cleveland, League of Women Voters, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Move to Amend, Peace Action, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Carl Stokes Brigade, National Congress of Black Women, BEMAD, Protecting Our Children's Safety, Refuse Fascism Ohio, Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Organize Ohio, Badass Teachers, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, Black Man's Army, Action Together Lakewood, the Coalition to Stop the Inhumanity in the Cuyahoga County Jail, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, and the Black Women's PAC of Greater Cleveland.
"Women's March Cleveland is pleased to welcome high quality keynote speakers and an array of respected greater Cleveland activist groups who have been in the trenches for women to our fourth annual march in Cleveland," said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a key organizer of Women's March Cleveland annual anniversary events since 2018. " This event is non-partisan and is open to all women across the board and their supporters."
The mistresses of ceremonies are greater Cleveland Black Women's Political Action President Elaine Gohlstin and writer, community organizer and reproductive rights activist Mallory McMaster, a Cleveland Heights resident.
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Cleveland to host 4th annual women's march on Sat., Jan. 18, 2020 on steps outside of Cleveland City Hall
- 22 December 2019
- Kathy
6th Democratic primary debate goes forward in Los Angeles with no Black candidates, Cory Booker failing to qualify and Kamala Harris quitting the race for president earlier this month....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com
- 20 December 2019
- Kathy
Pictured are U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), a former California attorney general, and U.S. Senator Cory Booker(D-NJ) of New Jersey, a former Newark mayor
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, Los Angeles, California- The 6th Democratic primary debate, held Thursday, Dec 19 in Los Angeles, went forward for the first time this year with no Blacks as U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California dropped out of the race for president this month and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey failed to make the cut among seven qualifying candidates, all of them White except businessman Andrew Yang, who is Asian-American.
The candidates meeting the increased polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee to debate Thursday in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University were former vice president Joe Biden, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Yang.
Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg are the national front-runner, Buttigieg the front- runner for the Iowa Caucuses, Iowa a 91 percent White state.
About seven other candidates, Booker included, did not qualify, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's campaign saying the DNC rigged the debate, though Gabbard, who is among a minority of Democrats who were against impeaching the president, is polling at just 2 percent.
Moderated by PBS and Politico, the Democrat's 6th debate comes as the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election nears and Democrats work to unseat President Donald Trump from the White House, and amid an upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate against the embattled Republican president, a billionaire real estate mogul who narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the presidency in 2016.
The single issue all seven candidates emphatically agreed on is that Trump must go, Wednesday's impeachment of the outspoken and arrogant president by the House of Representatives also center stage.
The super front-runner, Biden did well for the first time.
He looked good, spoke well, was cognizant on the issues, and appeared at ease, and he even sparred with Sanders on health care, the seven candidates debating issues across the board from immigration, education and taxes, to foreign policy, criminal justice reform, unemployment, free college tuition, and the economy.
Asked by a debate moderator about the absence of Blacks on the debate stage, Yang, the first Asian-American to reach popularity in a presidential contest in America, said he missed Booker and Harris and that he believes "Cory Booker will be back."
The absence of Sens, Booker and Harris on the debate stage is, no doubt, a loss for the Black community, Harris quitting the race even though she qualified for the sixth debate, sources saying that racism and sexim on the campaign trail were among the reasons for her departure.
Both of the junior U.S. senators fought for public policy issues for Blacks during the previous five debates on issues ranging from gun violence, racism, poverty, voting, and education, to health care, excessive force, criminal justice reform and jobs and unemployment.
A former California attorney general, Sen. Harris, 54, told supporters in an email on Dec. 3 that she was suspending her campaign because she could no longer afford the pursuit of the presidency due to a lack of money but that she will continue to fight.
“My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue,” said Harris, who polled as high as 22 percent and second behind Biden after the first debate after she took on Biden as fraternizing with segregationists in his years as U.S. senator and opposing public school busing.
But by the fifth debate, held last month in Atlanta, Georgia, she was polling at four percent or less.
Her departure leaves Booker, a former Newark, New Jersey mayor, as the only Black in the still crowded race to win the Democratic primary
In spite of his Booker's popularity in the Black community, Biden surpassed both Harris and Booker with Black voters' support for his candidacy at or near 80 percent, Booker's poll numbers currently just above two or three percent depending on the poll.
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 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 status of a presidential nominee of a major American political party, that being two-term former president Barack Obama, a Democrat and the nation's first Black president.
A former longtime U.S. senator who ran for president when Obama won in 2008 and had joined his ticket for vice president that year, Biden, 76, enjoys 80 percent of voters' support from the Black community relative to his current bid for president, polls show.
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.
U.S. House impeaches President Donald Trump, a win for U.S. Reps Beatty and Fudge, the NAACP, and Black people, Fudge, whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, Ohio, having dubbed the president a mobster, con man and gangster
- 19 December 2019
- 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.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief
Pictured above are United States President Donald Trump, Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Columbus, (wearing red)Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, and National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-WASHINGTON, D.C.-Hardly a week after House Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, announced two articles of impeachment against embattled Republican President Donald Trump, the lower chamber of Congress on Wednesday formally impeached the outspoken president for obstruction of Congress and abuse of power via a Ukraine scandal that raises questions about foreign policy corruption by U.S. officials and the security of presidential elections from foreign influences.
Congressional Democrats, under the theme 'Nobody is Above the Law,' and Republicans debated Tuesday on the two articles on the House floor Wednesday for more than 10 hours, Democrats lobbying for impeachment and Republicans speaking against the measure.
Wednesday's House vote was 219-154, with 13 Democrats and 34 Republicans abstaining or not registering a vote, and was along partisan lines, Republicans, with Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell at the helm, vowing to sabotage the upcoming impeachment trial in favor of the president, who issued a rambling seven page letter in disgust to Speaker Pelosi before this evening's vote, Democrats and activists rallying for impeachment Tuesday in cities across the country, including in Cleveland.
Democrats say that under Trump, the nation's 45th president, who succeeded former president Barack Obama into office, constitution has become dangerously out of balance while the Republicans say the Democrats have lowered the bar and that the partisan-bound impeachment proceedings are frivolous, and unfair. (Editor's note: A Democrat, Obama is the country's first and only Black president)
Now that the House has spoken Trump's fate is left in the hands of the Republican-controlled Senate, the Senate trial not a criminal trial and the only possible penalty being removal from office, which is slim to none in the Senate.
Ohio's Democratic delegation members, all of them demanding impeachment, were elated, namely U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, Reps Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat, and Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat former presidential candidate 9th congressional district extends to Cleveland, former presidential candidate Tim Ryan, and Rep Marcia Fudge, whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County.
Fudge and Beatty are the only two Blacks in Congress from Ohio.
"Madame Speaker I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record my remarks supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump," Rep Beatty said when her turn came during the hours long impeachment debate on the House floor on Tuesday.
“ A mobster? A con man? A gangster in the White House? I think so,” Fudge read on the floor of congress in June about Trump, a letter she said her office received from an upset constituent relative to the arrogant president.
The letter then went through a rundown of Trump’s behavior before turning attention to his followers where the congresswoman said that if Trump is racist so are his followers.
“The President betrayed the public interest, undermined our national security, attempted to corrupt our free and fair elections, and refused to comply with constitutionally mandated congressional oversight," the congresswoman told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tuesday in a statement. "These acts of betrayal cannot stand."
Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida, who is Black, did not hold back during her floor speech Tuesday, saying Trump was bold in calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to seek help in rigging the 2020 elections and choosing to "hold much needed military aid over our allies head until the president's demands were met."
In quoting historian and Harvard University Professor Noah Feldman, Democratic House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland said that "if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live under a monarchy , or we live under a dictatorship."
Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California was also among the many congressional speakers, and said Democrats have done nothing but undermine the president since he took office in 2017.
He said the current Congress is responsible for the best economy this nation has ever seen, a posture the NAACP questions as pro-White as Blacks in urban cities in particular face a more than 45 percent unemployment rate.
At issue is the president's alleged efforts to manipulate Ukraine leaders into digging up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, Biden the Democratic front-runner for president.
The president says there was no quid pro quo and that he did not tell Ukraine leaders that the U.S. would withhold some $400 million in foreign aid to Ukraine unless Hunter Biden were investigated regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars he received for work at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.
Data show otherwise, and the Democratically-led House of Representative disagrees.
Neither the former vice president nor his son has been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in the matter.
The House Judiciary Committee, after weeks of both public and private testimony across several House committees, and from constitutional experts, voted in support of the two impeachment articles, sending the measure for today's full congressional vote, Trump the third to be impeached and fourth president in American history to face an impeachment inquiry behind Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, one heightened by the upcoming 2020 election.
In addition to congressional Democrats and nearly half of America, the Black community is fed-up with the president too.
The NAACP wanted the president impeached as well as 85 percent of Black people, according to an NBC News- Wall Street Journal poll taken last month, the poll also showing that some 57 percent of Hispanics want the president impeached while only 41 percent of Whites favor impeachment.
In comparison, a CNN poll says that 61 percent of women want the president impeached.
“We wholeheartedly support the call by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to proceed with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump," said Derrick Johnson, national president and CEO of the NAACP, in a statement before today's House impeachment vote.
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.
Women's March Cleveland is January 18, 2020 with keynote speakers Cleveland Rape Crisis Center president and CEO Sondra Miller, state Rep. Juanita Brent and the Rev Tony Minor, and state Sen. Nickie Antonio will give opening remarks
- 18 December 2019
- Kathy
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Pictured are Ohio Representative Juanita Brent of Cleveland (D-12) (wearing black and with no eye glasses), Cleveland Rape Crisis Center President and CEO Sondra Miller (wearing teal blue), the Rev. Tony Minor, Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio (D-23) (wearing black with no eye glasses), Black Women's PAC of Greater Cleveland President Elaine Gohlstin (wearing dark pink), and writer and reproductive rights advocate Mallory McMaster (wearing patterned blue blouse)
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-
Sondra Miller, president and CEO of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, is one of three keynote speakers and will share strategies to prevent sexual violence and discuss the Violence Against Women Act as well as necessary resources to seek to eradicate violence against women in greater Cleveland at the Fourth Annual Women's March Cleveland/Northeast Ohio 2020 event, which will be held Sat., Jan 18, 2020, beginning at 10:30 am on the outside steps of Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland's march is a sister march to marches in cities nationwide, the third-year anniversary of the first march in January 2012 that followed the inauguration of President Donald Trump that brought millions of women to the streets in opposition to his ant-female campaign rhetoric.
Speeches are at 10:45 am, and will be followed by a noon march to Public Square.
"I am pleased to accept the invitation to speak," said Miller, who said she will discuss rape and other violence against women as well as the Violence Against Women Act.
The non-partisan anniversary event will also feature state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland and the Rev Tony Minor as keynote speakers, and state Sen Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, a women's rights advocate who pushes for public policy changes in the state legislature for the betterment of women and others, is the opening speaker.
Brent, the daughter of the late former state representative Vermel Whalen, and Minor are also women's advocates, Minor among a minority group of Black preachers who are pro-abortion.
Some 20 greater Cleveland activist groups participating and activists will also be among the speakers. Those groups, or group members, include Black on Black Crime Inc., Imperial Women Coalition, League of Women Voters, National Congress of Black Women Cleveland Chapter, Black Lives Matter, Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalist, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Move to Amend, Peace Action, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Carl Stokes Brigade, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, Action Together Lakewood, Coalition to Stop the Inhumanity in the Cuyahoga County Jail, National Congress of Black Women, BEMAD, Protecting Our Children's Safety, Refuse Fascism Ohio, Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Organize Ohio, Badass Teachers, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, Black Man's Army, and the Black Women's PAC of Greater Cleveland.
The issues range from the policies out of Washington, D.C. and civil, voting and reproductive rights to education, racism, sexism, climate change, equal pay, jobs, taxes, immigration and religious and other bigotry.
Also at issue, said organizers, are violence against women, healthcare, criminal justice reform, excessive force, science and technology, and the LGBTQ community, among a host of other concerns.
"Women's March Cleveland is pleased to welcome high quality keynote speakers and an array of respected greater Cleveland activist groups who have been in the trenches for women to our fourth annual march in Cleveland," said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a key organizer of Women's March Cleveland annual anniversary events since 2018. " This event is non-partisan and is open to all women across the board and their supporters."
Coleman is a longtime Black Cleveland activist and said that the rally is being held on the steps of Cleveland City Hall because Cleveland is the hub of the northeast Ohio region and that "Cleveland women in particular want to know what is being done at both the state and federal levels about heightened violence against women and girls and to assist women and their families who reside in largely Black and struggling major American cities."
The mistresses of ceremonies are greater Cleveland Black Women's Political Action President Elaine Gohlstin and writer, community organizer and reproductive rights activist Mallory McMaster, a Cleveland Heights resident.
From the rise of the #MeToo movement to allegations against high-profile celebrities, public officials, priests and powerful business executives, sexual violence has never been more prominent in our national headlines.
In the midst of recent news stories, an unprecedented volume of local and greater Cleveland survivors of rape and sexual abuse have been speaking out, sharing their experiences and asking for help. Stand with women in greater Cleveland and their supporters, and women across the globe, as we demand equal opportunity and fair play for women on Jan 18, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio, a largely Black major American city.
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Cleveland Browns lose to Arizona Cardinals 38-24, their playoffs hopes contingent on the Steelers losing against the Bills and then Cleveland winning its next two games....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com
- 16 December 2019
- Kathy
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-PHOENIX, Arizona-Led by head coach Freddie Kitchens, the Cleveland Browns lost to the Arizona Cardinals 24-38 at University of Phoenix Stadium Sunday afternoon Dec 15, edging further from a possible playoffs spot and via a high spirited football game that, between the two competing teams, was comprised of two young superstars at quarterback, Baker Mayfield for the Browns, and Kyler Murray for the Cardinals, the pair teammates in college at Oklahoma State University.
This is not to mention Browns star running back Nick Chubb, who leads the NFL in rushing at 1,281 yards, and wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who , in 2016, became the fastest NFL player in history to reach both 200 career receptions and 4,000 career receiving yards.
If the Pittsburgh Steelers, who snapped the Brown's three games winning steak when they beat the them at FirstEnergy Stadium Dec 2, win against the Buffalo Bills Sunday night, the Browns can kiss the playoffs goodbye. (Editor's note: Since this article was published the Bills beat the Steelers Sunday night 17-10).
But if the Steelers lose, Cleveland, who went on to beat Cincinnati after losing to the Steelers Dec. 2, only to lose to Arizona on Sunday, must win its next two games to potentially reach the playoffs, a 1-4 percent chance, Cleveland now with a 6-8 regular season win-loss record and the Steelers 7-6 going into Sunday night's game.
Last week the Steelers beat the Cardinals 23-17.
Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury, who was Baker Mayfield's college coach for a time at Oklahoma where both Murray and Mayfield played, and where Mayfield was quarterback when he won the Heisman Trophy in 2017, was elated relative to his team's win on Sunday against the Cardinals.
Pundits said that Mayfield would have done better against the Cardinals had he thrown the ball less in favor of rushing the ball more frequently and pursuing play actions off the run.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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