“He took a bullet for somebody, but he was an innocent bystander,” said Tinetria McGhee, sister of John Hay football star quarterback Michael Chapman, who was shot last July 6th while walking home from his job with a friend, along Ansel Road, on Cleveland’s East side. McGhee sat and slept in a makeshift bed, vigilantly by his bedside, surrounded by family at University’s Lakeside Hospital until Friday, July 21st. Chapman’s family and friends believed he would walk again in co

As THIS week began the turmoil inside the Cleveland Cavaliers reached a debilitating crescendo of the chaos that has engulfed the franchise since it became known public that Kyrie Irving demanded to be traded. Recently, the Cavs star guard went to owner Dan Gilbert and essentially complained about his role with the team and requested a trade, declaring that he could not co-exist with The King, LeBron James. James had knew of Irving discontent several weeks before and so too

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise… American patriot Donald J. Trump campaigned on revolutionary principles, promises and commitments, and he has resolved to do whatever has to be done in order to guarantee those principles of Liberty and to keep the promises and commitments he made to ‘We the People,’ the American people. “We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America Fi

The media tour for ‘The Spectacle’ has concluded and all that is left is for the money to keep pouring in for the Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather-Conor McGregor “boxing match” in Las Vegas on August 26th. Mayweather, 49-0 and 12 time world champion in the sport of boxing will be taking on mix martial arts star McGregor in what will be the most lucrative event in the history of boxing. It pits the UFC’s most popular commodity versus boxing’s most despised legend in Mayweather. The bu

Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell signs endorsement for the Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices initiative that will be on the November ballot during a private ceremony in Maple Heights last week. (Photo/KENNETH D. MILLER) Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell, the first Black and woman to be elected mayor in the history of Maple Heights, endorsed the Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices initiative last week at a private event in Maple Heights. Flanked by family, citizen

Centenarian Judge Jean Murrell Capers, the first African American woman elected to the Cleveland City Council, a distinguished legal pioneer who served as Assistant Attorney General and Cleveland Municipal Court Judge for more than a decade has died. She was 104 years old. News of her passing lit up social media mid day Tuesday and a bevy of calls poured into the Call & Post Newspaper, but her death subsequently was confirmed by her court appointed guardian Vel Scott on July1

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise… “THERE IS NO WINNER IN A NUCLEAR EXCHANGE.” NUCLEAR WAR IS LIKE NO OTHER WAR THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN…. “IF IT’S NAÏVE TO WANT PEACE INSTEAD OF WAR, LET’EM MAKE SURE THEY SAY I’M NAÏVE, BECAUSE I WANT PEACE INSTEAD OF WAR.” SAID BENJAMIN FERENCZ, THE LAST NUREMBURG PROSECUTOR; WHO I UNCONDITIONALLY SUPPORT IN THE DESIRE AND QUEST FOR PEACE. No form of war is good…BUT NUCLEAR WAR THREATENS OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE O

Keenon speaks to supporters at the fundraiser and addresses her political platform, which includes a 10-point strategic plan for revitalization of East Cleveland, a plan she says she will implement if elected mayor EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Una H.R. Keenon, one of five officially declared candidates for the Sept. 12 primary election for East Cleveland mayor, greeted supporters, colleagues, friends and community members at recent fundraiser at her home on Cleviden Road, a supportiv

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise… “Know ye the truth and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 Wake up America…The evil, corrupt, rigged system is the enemy…Not President Donald J. Trump!!! The White House is under siege, the evil, corrupt, rigged system is using every method and evil, diabolical and sinister scheme to create doubt, distrust and contempt against President Donald J Trump, his family, his administration and his staunch supporters.

Martha Rivera Chavis, 53, the devoted wife of civil rights leader, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., died at home in Montclair, NJ at 3:00 AM this morning. As First Lady of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and as the former First Lady of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1993-1994, Martha R. Chavis was a loving mother and strong advocate for freedom, justice and equality in the United States, Africa and in the Dominican Re