Capital Improvement fundraising event for Black museum in Cleveland (pictured below) is supported by Cleveland and Cuyahoga County council members, community activists, and a retired judge....Asked by museum Executive Director Frances Caldwell to assist via an email to Editor Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News.Com helped in promoting the event, including telephone calls to community activists and elected officials, a prior article, social media, and recommending Cleveland 19 Action News Anchor Harry Boomer as moderator.... Boomer contacted Coleman personally by phone to confirm his attendance....By field reporter Gwendolyn Pitts and editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com
 |
| The African-American Museum of Cleveland |
www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, We have more than three million projected Internet viewers via Google Plus, Facebook, our website and blog, Twitter, and elsewhere. Thanks for reading us.
By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS
Kathy Wray Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS alone
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-Black Cleveland City Council members, Cuyahoga County councilpersons Yvonne Conwell and Dale Miller, community activists and retired Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Jean Murrell Capers were among a host of people that supported the capital improvement fundraiser on Friday for the African-American Museum of Cleveland. (Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com was a key organizer of the event per an email request from museum executive director Frances Caldwell. This includes requesting that Cleveland 19 Action News Anchor Harry Boomer moderate the event, where he contacted Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman via telephone and agreed to participate. We also published an article leading up to the gathering as well as promoted it on social media. A third of those there participated with our assistance and per hours of community organizing).
Judge Capers spoke at Friday's event, among others.
Held at the University Circle Bed and Breakfast on the city's east side the evening was replete with hors d'oeuvres and jazz music from the band of Councilman Kevin Conwell, also a drummer.
Other Cleveland councilpersons there were Jeff Johnson, T.J. Dow and Zack Reed.
Community activists in attendance include Marva Patterson, David Patterson, Valerie Robinson, Dr. Stewart Robinson, Ada Averyhart, the Rev Pamela Pinkney -Butts, Genevieve Mitchell, and William Clarence Marshall and Erica Conner.
Mitchell is also museum board member as are board president John A. Boyd, Mae Williams, Dr. Saul Ivy, Theodore Guerry of Black on Black Crime Inc., and Mestophia Frame.
Formerly the Afro-American Cultural and Historical Society Museum the African-American Museum of Cleveland, located on Crawford Road in Cleveland Ward 7 on the city's largely Black east side, it was founded in 1953 by the late Icabod Flewellen and is housed in a 100-year-old Carnegie Library building. "
The museum is temporarily closed due to a lack resources and because the building is in dire need of repairs. It closed in 2011 but has had some events off and on until it was shut down completely last year.
Funds raised will offset the $5,000 needed for insurance to secure a $150,000 capital improvement grant allocated in the state budget, museum oficials said.www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
