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Vote Justice Judi French for Ohio Supreme Court, her opponent, Judge John P. O'Donnell, is corrupt, he and other Cuyahoga County judges stole homes via illegal foreclosures for JPMorgan Chase Bank, others, with help from the sheriff"s office

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog .  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Patrolman Michael Brelo CLEVELAND, Ohio- According to public records, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, the judge hearing the case of indicted Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo, who faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter after  gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 49 bullets following a car chase in 2012 that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland,  is corrupt. He is also a friend of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a former common pleas judge, and stole homes via illegal foreclosures for his friends,  corrupt elected officials, big banks and mortgage companies, and others, a Clevela

Updated: Funeral services for Call and Post Editor Connie Harper are Saturday, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to hold ceremony on Friday, NNPA president and former national NAACP executive director Ben Chavis talks one-on-one with Cleveland Urban News.Com on Harper, calls Harper a 50-year Civil Rights advocate who understood the significance of the Black press, Chavis was an assistant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Connie Harper By  Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Funeral services for  Call and Post Newspaper Assoc. Publisher and Exec. Editor Constance "Connie" Harper are Saturday, Nov 1 at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, 8712 Quincy Avenue, on Cleveland's largely Black east side, a family spokesperson said earlier today. The wake is at 9:30 am and funeral services are at 10:30 am. Arrangements are entrusted to E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home. ( www.efboyd.com ). Also, Harper's sorority sisters o

Community activists, Black elected officials, others to rally against violence against women and against a new trial for convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell at 4 pm on Imperial Avenue on October 29, 2014, the fifth anniversary of The Imperial Avenue Murders, call 216-659-0473 for more information, Sowell's convictions and death sentence are on appeal before the Ohio Supreme Court and his lawyers are demanding either a new trial or that his convictions and death sentence be overturned, the Ohio ACLU is supporting serial killer Sowell, community activists comment

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The since demolished home on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland, Ohio of Convicted Serial Murderer Anthony Sowell where the remains of 11 Black women were found beginning on Oct. 29, 2009.  ANTHONY SOWELL'S MURDER VICTIMS. DOES THIS SERIAL KILLER REALLY DESERVE A NEW TRIAL?: The 11 Black women strangled and murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland. Six were murdered after convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell was captured and then released from custody in 2008, Cleveland city officials admit. Their remains were uncovered beginning on Oct 29, 2009 and this year marks the fifth anniversary of the gruesome murders that rocked the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland. The Imperial Women  Convicted Serial Killer  Anthony Sowell, who sits on death row while his convictions and death sentence are on appeal before the Ohio Supreme Court where his lawyers seek a new trial or for the high court to overturn his convictions and death sentence. He admitted

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge salutes Call and Post Editor Connie Harper, extends condolences to her family on behalf of the 11th congressional district, which includes the city of Cleveland and is largely Black

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11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Connie Harper Warrensville Heights, OH -  11th Congressional District Congresswoman  Marcia L. Fudge  (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, commented yesterday on the passing of Civil Rights advocate and longtime Call and Post associate publisher and editor-in-chief Constance "Connie" Harper, who died Friday at the age of 81. “Throughout her life Constance D. Harper used her gifts as a journalist, newspaper executive and civic leader to benefit the community and improve the lives of the most vulnerable among us," said Fudge. &

Black Women's PAC holds annual fundraising luncheon that draws county, statewide candidates for office, voting and justice for Trayvon Martin and Michael Ferguson are center stage

LYNDHURST, Ohio- The Black Women's Political Action Committee (BWPAC), led by East Cleveland Board of Education President Una H.R. Kennon, also a retired  East Cleveland judge, recently held its annual fundraising luncheon at the luxurious Acacia Reservation in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. The four hour event, at $60 a person, drew a packed house  and an array of people, including women's groups such as the local and regional members of the National Council of Negro Women, the Metropolitan Cleveland Alliance of Black School Educators, and judges, elected officials, and politicians and wannabes seeking county and statewide offices and  judge-ships.  Voting was the primary agenda with Keenon and her PAC sisters telling the audience to vote on November 4. "It is very important that we get out and vote," said Kennon."We cannot leave it up to others to make our decision for us." Cleveland Heights City Council Member Janine Boyd, the Democratic can

Call and Post Associate Publisher and Executive Editor Connie Harper dies at 81, Harper was a supporter of President Obama and a staunch advocate of civil and human rights, is to be inducted into the Press Club's Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame next month, was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and was recently honored by the Cleveland Chapter of 100 Black Men, Harper was member of the Old Black Political Guard that help to elect the first Black mayor of a major American city

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Connie Harper By  Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) (Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com led all media in breaking the story on the death of Connie Harper. Cleveland Urban News.Com salutes Cleveland journalism legend Constance "Connie" Harper) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Civil Rights advocate and longtime Call and Post Newspaper Assoc. Publisher and Exec. Editor Constance "Connie" Harper died Friday at a Dayton, Ohio hospital where she was on life support after suffering a heart attack. She was 81. Funeral ar