National NAACP president, 5 others arrested after sit-in over Trump attorney general nominee U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as Cleveland NAACP officers will be sworn in January 10....Some 700 Cleveland protesters (pictured) previously rallied over Trump's transition team and cabinet picks, a rally led by Marty Krebs with activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman leading chants and speaking and calling for Trump to diversify his cabinet picks with consequential people of color and women....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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National NAACP CEO and President Cornell William Brooks, (top at far left) and five others were arrested Jan 3 following a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama office of U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, the attorney general nominee of President-elect Donald Trump, and of whom national Civil Rights organizations like the NAACP say is 'hostile' towards Civil Rights gains


Hundreds gathered at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio Nov. 18, 2016 to rally against United States President-elect Donald Trump. The protesters said they were angry over Trump's insensitive campaign rhetoric and the lack of diversity and people of consequence as to Trump's transition team and cabinet nominees


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By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-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. (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.5 million views).
Controversial United States Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala)
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-MOBILE, Alabama- Cornell William Brooks, the CEO and national president of the NAACP, and five others were arrested Tuesday night following a  30 person sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama office of Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, 70, whom president-elect Donald Trump's has nominated for attorney general amid opposition from congressional Democrats and Black Civil Rights leaders across the country (Editor's note: Protests have erupted across America since Trump's election, many angry over the make-up of his transition team and cabinet member selections, including White men allegedly hostile to Civil Rights gains such as Sessions, Stephen K. Bannon, who is Trump's senior counsel and chief strategist, and CIA director nominee Mike Pompeo. Some 700 people, led by activist Marty Krebs, protested on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 18, including Imperial Women Coalition leader Kathy Wray Coleman, who demanded in her speech that Trump diversify his cabinet picks to include consequential people of color and women, saying people of color and women are at risk with a Trump administration CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE OF THE 700-PERSON CLEVELAND ANTI-TRUMP RALLY AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS , which includes a video of the rally by Cleveland FOX 8 NEWS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SAME VIDEO ON THE WEBSITE OF CLEVELAND FOX 8 NEWS . Cleveland Channel 3 News also covered the anti-trump rally in Cleveland with an affiliated video.  CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SAME VIDEO ON THE WEBSITE OF WKYC CHANNEL 3 NEWS IN CLEVELAND ).

 Brooks and the five others were each charged with second-degree criminal trespassing and were led out of the building peacefully in handcuffs. (Editor's note: The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, which was not a participant in Tuesday's sit-in in Alabama, will install officers, including its incumbent president, Michael Nelson Sr., at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 6 pm at the Greater Friendship Baptist Church on Arlington Avenue in Cleveland).

 Prior to the high-profile arrests, which came after most of the demonstrators had left, the protesters at Sessons' office Tuesday, led by Brooks, 55 and national president of the NAACP since 2014,  were allowed to pray.

 "We thank the efforts of the NAACP for the voices of those that have been marginalized," one protester said.

 The NAACP activists said they are angry over Sessions' allegedly 'hostile' attitude toward Civil Rights and the  Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a Supreme Court decision in 2013.

 About six cops showed for the arrest of Brooks and the other five civilly disobedient protesters, all of whom say the fight for equal opportunity and equal justice for Black people in America has been heightened under a Donald Trump administration.

 “We are engaging in a voluntary act of civil disobedience," Brooks told police before getting arrested. "We try to conduct ourselves in a peaceful manner, a nonviolent manner.”

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