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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-August 20, 2024,

CHICAGO, Illinois- Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama highlighted the second night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois, and made the case for Vice President Kamala Harris for president, and they stole the show, saying "we [Americans] are ready for a President Kamala Harris."

Harris is by some standards an Obama political protege previously groomed by the Obama's and Democrats for her role as vice president, and now president. She will face Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump for the Nov. 5 presidential election as the nominee for the Democratic Party.

An ivy league lawyer, Michele Obama spoke before introducing her husband and was simply fabulous as she outlined what she says Harris will do for America. She emphasized the importance of getting out the Black and other vote at the ballot box in November and she framed Harris as a comeback kid for the country at a tiring time of political divisiveness nationwide.

"America, hope is making a comeback," said Michelle Obama before she lit into Trump comment after comment, including suggesting the former president's policies are anti-Democratic and anti-Black and that he is irrational and dangerous to the welfare of the country.

"Whose going to tell him that one of those jobs he wants is one of those Black jobs?" Michelle Obama said in referencing Trump's campaign racial antics during her 15 min speech.

The nation's first Black president, Obama was elected president in 2008 and won a second four-year term in 2012.

Then a California attorney general, Harris campaigned for him for his reelection bid in 2012, including campaign stops in Cleveland, Ohio, a Democratic stronghold and largely Black major American city that sits in Cuyahoga County, also a Democratic stronghold and the second largest of Ohio's 88 counties..

Michele Obama introduced her husband as "the 44th president and the love of my life."

Like his wife Michelle did during her speech, Obama also took on Trump when he spoke as he exercised the oratory brilliance that propelled him to the presidency in 2008 when he was a junior U.S. senator from Chicago representing the state of Illinois. At times the Chicago arena where the DNC is being conveniently held went silent as Obama spoke.

Obama reminded the Dems at the convention that he had accepted the Democratic nomination for president 16 years ago. And he gave almost a lesson in politics on the importance of electing Harris president.

"If we work like we've never worked before we will elect Kamala Harris the next president of the United States and Tim Waltz the next vice president," Obama said in concluding his speech to a standing ovation.

If she wins the November election that she and her fellow Democrats have deemed historic and the most important election in the country's history, Kamala Harris will become the nation's first Black and first female president.

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-August 19, 2024

CHICAGO, Illinois-After quitting the presidential race last month, President Joe Biden highlighted the opening night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Monday in Chicago, Illinois, and handed the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, who will accept her party's nomination for president Thursday night.

Harris will face Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump for the Nov. 5 presidential election.

When he finally took to the stage for a prolonged speech Biden said that Harris "will serve as the 47th president of the United States."

Ohioans who were there include Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Meridith Turner and Ohio Sen. Nickie Antonio, who did not appear on stage. Bibb and Antonio, however, spoke at the DNC breakfast Monday morning, Bibb a Black mayor and the city's second youngest mayor, and Antonio the Democratic minority leader of the Ohio Senate.In a special and touching segment, convention officials saluted the critically ill Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a Civil Rights icon who marched with the Rev Martin Luther KIng Jr. and the first Black man to seek the presidency.

Hillary Clinton and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden also spoke on Monday with former president Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz among the prominent Democratic headliners for the remaining days of the four-day, televised convention.

Clinton spoke on breaking the glass ceiling and getting Harris elected as the first female president.

Jill Biden was well-received by the convention crowd of thousands as she lauded her husband's accomplishments and those of Harris. Her daughter with President Biden, Ashley Biden, followed her in speaking and talked about what it is like to be the daughter of a president of her father's stature. She then introduced her father, President Biden, and to rousing applause and a standing ovation as Biden took to the stage.

Both Harris and Walsh, who will accept the nomination for vice president Wednesday night, were in attendance on Monday with their spouses by their sides.

Barack Obama will speak Tuesday night, as will former first lady Michelle Obama, the nation's first Black, female first lady.

President Biden gave a coherent and energetic speech ripe with sharp criticisms of Trump and said progress was and remains possible under Harris' leadership. And he spoke at length on his and the Biden-Harris policies, and called Trump weird, and "a loser." He said that when Trump was president "he killed the first bipartisan, comprehensive border bill," and he blamed Trump for a Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 and stripped women of their reproductive freedoms.

Biden withdrew last month as the presumptive nominee for president for the Democratic Party and urged Democrats to support Vice President Kamala Harris in his place, changing the political landscape as the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election nears and handing former President Donald Trump a vibrant Black woman to compete against. Polls have her leading by some three percentage points as the Dems' convention gets underway in Obama's town of Chicago, the city that catapulted him from a south side community organizer and junior U.S. senator to president of the United States of America, America's first Black president in fact, and a two-term president.

President Biden's decision to withdraw from the race came following mounting pressure from congressional and other Democrats after his poor performance in the June 27 first presidential debate showed signs of his deteriorating mental acuity and he came down with COVID-19.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote on his X account.

Democrats quickly convinced campaign donors and voters to switch gears and back Harris, 59 and the country's first Black and first female vice president.

If she wins the November election that she and her fellow Democrats have deemed historic and the most important election in the country's history, Kamala Harris will become the nation's first Black and first female president.

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U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes(OH-13

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat who represents Ohio's 13th congressional district, introduced the Airship Improvement Research for Safety and Humanitarian Innovation Projects (AIRSHIP) Act, legislation that would support research into additional civil use cases for airships, often referred to as blimps

The congresswoman said it could also contribute to economic, sustainable and clean air cargo transportation, and would support disaster response efforts and provide humanitarian aid to people and areas in need.

“Ohio’s 13th congressional district is home to the most famous airship in the world – the Goodyear Blimp," said Sykes, one of three Black women in Congress from Ohio. "This legislation will continue to establish our community as a global leader in airship technology and it will encourage innovative uses of this method of transportation to address some of our nation’s most pressing problems."

The legislation has been endorsed by Goodyear, which is headquartered in Akron, and by the University of Akron.

The text of the bill can be found HERE, and a one-page summary can be found HERE.

The bill authorizes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create aeronautical research and technology initiatives for improved airship safety, noise, environmental impacts, and resiliency. It also gives NASA the authority to establish a program that awards grants to teams of aerospace researchers from universities, industry, and government to advance innovations in airship vehicle technology.

In the face of challenges such as global pandemics and climate related disasters, airships are uniquely capable of accessing remote locations or damaged landscapes and delivering resources and services where traditional aircraft often cannot.

Congresswoman Sykes says "the legislation would enable and reintroduce the world to practical, economical, and environmentally friendly airship transportation."

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