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Imperial Women, other community activists call for state legislative bill that gives reparations to Ariel Castro victims to be amended to include Black women that were raped and escaped Sowell at anniversary rally to remember the 11 Black murdered female victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell, several family members of Sowell victims speak at rally as do community activists, Black clergy, elected officials, victims of rape, Republican-centered Cleveland Fox 8 News television station uses biased reporter Emily Valdez to publish negative story to try to taint event out of anger because activists want justice for the Sowell victims and their families, and reparations for Ohio Black women raped and for surviving children of Sowell's murder victims

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND,Ohio-More than 200 people attended an anniversary rally and vigil Tuesday night to remember the 11 Black women slain at the since demolished home of serial killer Anthony Sowell, a gathering sponsored by the Imperial Women Coalition of community activists groups that include Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc, the Carl Stokes Brigade and Peace in the Hood. Cleveland police began removing the remains of the 11 women from the home on October 29, 2009 and Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the gruesome discoveries that have rocked the impoverished major American city of some 400,000 people.  The event was covered by local television stations 3, 5, 19 and 8, the Plain Dealer, which is

Roz McAllister for Cleveland City Council Ward 12, vote November 5, 2013

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Activists to attend funeral of community activist that fought for justice for the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell

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Willie Stokes at a rally for justice for the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell STOKES WILLIE J. STOKES, of Cleveland, OH, age 53, transitioned this life on October 23, 2013. Public Viewing Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1PM - 7PM at CHARLES TAYLOR FUNERAL AND CREMATION SERVICE, 21900 Euclid Ave, Euclid, OH. Service Thursday, October 31, 2013; Wake 10:00AM, Funeral 10:30AM at Vineyard Center Ministries 13415 Union Ave, Cleveland, Ohio. Interment of cremains private. 216-451-7590.

Updated Press Release: Yvonne Pointer, Imperial Avenue Murder victim's sister are among keynote speakers at Imperial Women Coalition of Imperial Women and other activists groups' 4th Anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders Rally and Vigil at 5:30 pm on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland on October 29, 2013 with community activists, victims, victims families , elected officials, Black clergy

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 Convicted rapist and serial killer of 11 Black women Anthony Sowell, who sits on death row while his convictions are on appeal. Tuesday, October 29, 2013 marks the fourth anniversary of the day the first of the 11 bodies was removed from his since demolished home on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side in 2009. CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women Coalition of the Imperial Women and other local community activists groups, with support from the Baptist Ministers Conference of greater Cleveland and other area Black clergy, will host "The 4th  Anniversary  o f the  Imperial Avenue Murders Rally  And  Candlelight Vigi l And Universal Call To Find Missing Women And Children&q

As Browns quarterbacks struggle the defense needs to step up

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 Karl Kimbrough (pictured), Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Against the Green Bay Packers, Browns fans didn't have to wait long to find out if Brandon Weeden would be successful in not allowing criticism to affect his performance. On Cleveland's first three offensive possessions they went three plays and out. This was a direct result of Weeden missing wildly on seven of his first eight passes. He was very high and wide on almost every throw. Those throws reminded me of a fastball pitcher who had lost his effectiveness. Now after almost a season and a half of professional football it is obvious that Weeden never left his first love, baseball. Weeden had failed

Does Weeden deserve the blame for Lions lost?

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 Karl Kimbrough (pictured), Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Sometimes the finger is wrongfully pointed at one player as the reason for a lost at the most recent home game at First Energy Stadium in Cleveland, a pro football, baseball and basketball town ripe with all the trimmings of a major American city . From the criticism that Brandon Weeden received for the Cleveland Browns lost that day to the Detroit Lions one may think he falls into this category. Phone lines have been burning up at sports call in shows as fans have been calling in to complain about Weeden's wild toss that was intercepted in the fourth quarter. Some sports writers from local newspapers, lik

Judge Angela Stokes fires back relative to alleged racist and sexist harassment by Ohio Supreme Court Disciplinary Counsel, read her statement here, a daughter of retired Congressman Louis Stokes, she also takes on the Plain Dealer over its editorial

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Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes, a daughter of retired Congressman Louis Stokes of Shaker Heights, is fighting back as to alleged race and sex discrimination and other harassment via a 49-page complaint from the White, male Ohio Supreme Court Disciplinary Counsel that demands she take a mental exam following a bar complaint , Ohio lawyers, something White male judges under scrutiny are rarely if ever required to do, data show. Stokes, who is Black and intends to appeal the demand to the full seven-member Ohio Supreme Court, has also criticized an editorial on the matter published in the Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest Newspape

Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, rape victim Christine Wilson to guest on WZAK's 93.1 FM Woman to Woman radio talk show hosted by Kym Sellers at 6:30 am on Sunday, October 20, 2013, Coleman to discuss the upcoming 4th Anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders Rally and Vigil on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 5:30 pm at E. 123rd St and Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, serial killer Anthony Sowell sits on death row

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Kym Sellers (Host of  Woman To Woman On WZAK 93.1 FM and "The Quiet Storm.") By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman and rape victim Christine Wilson, whose daughter and granddaughter were also allegedly raped, are the guests on WZAK 93.1 FM radio in Cleveland on the Kym Sellers radio show of Woman to Woman ( Woman To Woman On WZAK 93.1 FM )  at  6:30 am on Sunday, October 20, 2013. Coleman discusses the epidemic of rape and murder against women of greater Cleveland across racial lines and the upcoming 4th Anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders Rally and Candlelight Vigil, which is at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, October 29 at  East 123rd Street and Imperial Ave

Congresswoman Fudge speaks on government shut down ending, calls for bipartisan truce

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U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, released  a press statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives last night voted to pass legislation that ends the government shutdown and avoids default. The legislation, H.R. 2775,  passed the House with 285 yeas and 144 nays. “I am pleased the House has finally acted responsibly to reopen the government, and make sure our bills are paid on time, at least in the short term," said Fudge in a press statement to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online

Updated: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci ditches Black leaders, media at activists forum, says Sharpton, Rev Jesse Jackson, Mayor Jackson, Black leaders, elected officials get rich while Black community deteriorates, some disagree, some agree, Lanci donates to Black museum, Activist Amy Hurd says Black leaders, elected officials do some good and cannot be "all things to all people all of the time," Lanci donates $5,000 to Black museum in Cleveland, says Black leaders, elected officials would not help museum

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From left: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and Community Activist Art McKoy,  founder  of the community activist group Black on Black Crime Inc. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci took on Black elected officials and Black leaders, both  locally and nationally, and the local mainstream media, including the Plain Dealer, at a community forum held last night at Black on Black Crime headquarters in East Cleveland, a neighboring majority Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland. And the 63-year-old Italian American multimillionaire and businessman who grew up in a housing project on the largely Black east side of Cleveland was at ea

Retired Judge Sara Harper inducted into Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame

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By  Bret Crow COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Ohio Civil Rights Commission has inducted retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Sara J. Harper, 87, into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame. In her official bio that will accompany an educational display, it notes that she was the first African American woman to graduate from Case Western Reserve University Law School, the first woman to serve on the judiciary of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, the first of two Black women to win seats on an Ohio court of appeals, the first African American woman to run for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, and the first African American woman to sit by assignment on the Ohio Supreme Court. She was a Cleveland Municipal Court judge before she won a state court appellate seat. “As president of the Cleveland NAACP in the early 1980s,” the bio states, “Harper fought against strip searches by police of female NAACP members who were arrested for minor traffic infractions.” The bio also tou

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Delores Smith, the wife of Cleveland NAACP President The Rev Hilton Smith, dies, Delores Smith was a former model, Rev Caviness of Greater Abyssinia to do eulogy, funeral is Friday, October 18 at 11:30 am, wake is an hour before, viewing is Thursday, October 17 at Strowder's Funeral Home

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- The wife of Cleveland NAACP President The Rev Hilton Smith passed away on Saturday, October 12, 2013, after a long illness, officials of the local chapter of the nation's most renowned Civil Rights organization said Monday. Arrangements for Delores W. Smith are by Strowder's Funeral Home in Cleveland. The wake is at the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland where Rev Smith is an associate minister, 1161 East 105th St, at 10:30 am, on  Friday, October 18, with the funeral following at 11:30 am.  The viewing is on Thursday, October 17 from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm at Strowder's Funeral Home, 822 East 105th Street in Cleveland, phone 216-761-3092. Cleveland

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AP interviews President Barack Obama one-on-one on the partial government shutdown

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 The Associated Press in the White House library in Washington interviewed President Barack Obama on the partial government shutdown initiated earlier this month. Obama, who successfully ran for president as a first-term senator, spoke critically about first-term Republican senators, such as Ted Cruz of Texas, who have been leading efforts to shut the government if Republicans can't extract concessions from the White House. He said that when he was in the Senate, he "didn't go around courting the media." And I certainly didn't go around trying to shut down the government, he said. Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 By the Associate Press WASHINGTON, D.C.-THE PRESIDENT: So what I've said to them is this: Make sure that the United

Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci to take questions from community activists, community members tonight, October 9, 2013, 7:30 pm, Black on Black Crime Inc. meeting, at McCall's,14660 Euclid Avenue

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From left: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and Community Activist Art McKoy,  founder  of the community activist group Black on Black Crime Inc. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci will take questions from community activists and other community members at 7:30 pm tonight, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at Black on Black Crime headquarters at McCall's at 14660 Euclid Ave. For more information contact Community Activist Art McKoy at 216-253-4070. Black on Black Crime President Ernie Harris will moderate the event, organizers said. "This is a forum for people to hear Ken Lanci's political platform and to ask question