Cleveland does not have an organizing problem. It has a coordination problem. Boots on the Ground returns for November, carried by RealPower.TV and the names on the flyer — and it starts Saturday with a breakfast.
Cleveland police called it ethnic intimidation. The contractor called it nothing. Ohio’s hate crime law has not been touched since 1987 and tops out at twelve months.
They arrested a 19-year-old for the fire at Friendship Baptist. Nobody will answer for the seven years before him. My mother’s funeral was in that sanctuary. So was my grandfather’s.
Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. blocked Ohio’s demand for citizenship papers at the BMV. LaRose is appealing. The registration deadline is October 5. This is not a victory, it is a window.
Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV Sixty-one years. That’s how long Black folks had a legal shield protecting our right to vote and our
NABJ gave Stephen A. Smith its Thumbs Down award for a pattern of tearing down Black women. He has reach. What he does not have is standing.
RealPower.TV is live — four shows, a newsroom, one address for Black political power out of Cleveland. A media company asks for your attention. Infrastructure puts the mic in your hand and hits record.
Martin Sweeney had a bill. He needed eight votes out of eleven. Tuesday, he counted the room and didn’t have them. So he pulled his own resolution off the agenda before anyone had to vote no.
Kenn Dowell was in the room in 2009 when Cuyahoga County rebuilt its government. He says Black leadership settled for an appointed sheriff because, at that moment, they didn’t believe they could win the seat outright — and that calculation doesn’t hold anymore.
A letter dated June 25, 2025 shows Cleveland Public Power offered a developer up to 125 megawatts of power a full year before City Hall said it was blindsided by the $1.6 billion data center proposal.
Cleveland does not have an organizing problem. It has a coordination problem. Boots on the Ground returns for November, carried by RealPower.TV and the names on the flyer — and it starts Saturday with a breakfast.
Cleveland police called it ethnic intimidation. The contractor called it nothing. Ohio’s hate crime law has not been touched since 1987 and tops out at twelve months.
They arrested a 19-year-old for the fire at Friendship Baptist. Nobody will answer for the seven years before him. My mother’s funeral was in that sanctuary. So was my grandfather’s.
Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. blocked Ohio’s demand for citizenship papers at the BMV. LaRose is appealing. The registration deadline is October 5. This is not a victory, it is a window.
Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV Sixty-one years. That’s how long Black folks had a legal shield protecting our right to vote and our
NABJ gave Stephen A. Smith its Thumbs Down award for a pattern of tearing down Black women. He has reach. What he does not have is standing.
RealPower.TV is live — four shows, a newsroom, one address for Black political power out of Cleveland. A media company asks for your attention. Infrastructure puts the mic in your hand and hits record.
Martin Sweeney had a bill. He needed eight votes out of eleven. Tuesday, he counted the room and didn’t have them. So he pulled his own resolution off the agenda before anyone had to vote no.
Kenn Dowell was in the room in 2009 when Cuyahoga County rebuilt its government. He says Black leadership settled for an appointed sheriff because, at that moment, they didn’t believe they could win the seat outright — and that calculation doesn’t hold anymore.
A letter dated June 25, 2025 shows Cleveland Public Power offered a developer up to 125 megawatts of power a full year before City Hall said it was blindsided by the $1.6 billion data center proposal.
RealPower.TV is Cleveland’s Black digital newsprint — a Black-owned media outlet covering African American news, politics, health, business and culture across Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and Ohio. Cleveland went years without a Black paper. We picked it back up.
Published by Strategic Moves Media Network, RealPower.TV also produces Black podcasts and radio out of Cleveland: the The RealPower Radio Show with Kenn Dowell and Dr. Heather E. Burton, live Tuesdays 12–1PM on 95.9 FM WOVU and streaming here; The RealPower.TV Podcast with Kenn Dowell; Sanctified & Stilettos with Dr. Heather E. Burton; and A-1 Conversations with Joe Little III.
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