TheGrio.com
By Sophia A. Nelson
Posted September 2nd 2010
From the NAACP’s official website:
We are satisfied that on August 28 [at Restoring Honor Rally], there were few overt signs of racism — however, we remain committed to holding the Tea Party to their word. Our coalition watchdog website, TeaPartyTracker.org, will serve as evidence of this [...]

Newsnet5.com/WEWS_TV
Posted August 31st 2010
Cleveland schools CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders spoke Thursday at the opening of a new high school for 9th and 10th grade students.
New Tech will be housed on the campus of East Tech High School.
Part of the campus has been completely gutted to make way for a new 21st [...]

Aol.com
by Dana Chivvis

Posted August 30th 2010
Nine states and the District of Columbia have been announced as the second-round winners in the federal Race to the Top competition. In March, Delaware and Tennessee won the first round of grants, leaving $3.4 billion of the $4.35 billion pot of grant money to be [...]

TheGrio.com
By Sandra Lilley
Posted August 30th 2010
Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding “no,” according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a “national crisis,” [...]

Newsnet5.com/WEWS-TV
By Mark Durdak
Posted August 27th 2010
Cleveland Browns tailgaters will be in for a surprise come September 19, the day of the first home opener game against The Kansas City Chiefs.
New on tap for this year is a $5 increase for each parking spot in the Cleveland Municipal Parking Lot [...]

NewsNet5.com/WEWS-TV
Posted August 27th 2010
Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic announced on Tuesday that the city will lay off 49 police officials, including 40 officers and 9 supervisors.
The layoffs are the result of a $4 million shortfall in the 2010 budget. Unless the police union takes immediate action and makes concessions, those officers will receive notices [...]

Associated Press
By Phillip Elliott
Posted August 27th 2010
WASHINGTON — Glenn Beck says it’s just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Civil rights veterans are skeptical.
“This is [...]

Fanhouse.com
By A.J. Perez
Posted August 24th 2010
Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren appeared in a Florida courtroom to finalize their divorce on Monday, nine months after a late-night car crash led to the discovery of multiple affairs.
Nordegren’s lawyers wrote that the marriage was “irretrievably broken” in the divorce petition. After the hearing at Bay [...]

CNN.com
Posted August 24th 2010
Washington (CNN) — Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department in July, declined an offer Tuesday to serve as the agency’s deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach.
The newly created position was designed to improve the department’s civil [...]

Associated Press
By Thomas J. Sheeran
Posted August 21st 2010

CLEVELAND: Plans are moving ahead for a casino in downtown Cleveland.
The owner of the landmark Terminal Tower skyscraper and adjacent Tower City enclosed shopping mall announced a land deal Thursday for the casino to be built by a company led by Cavaliers owner Dan [...]