Cleveland NAACP election for officers remains shut down and under investigation by national NAACP, monthly meetings held in limbo, branch elections were at first scheduled for today, November 10, 2014, branch infighting continues, also remembering Reed v. Rhodes, the now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation court order
Top row from left: NAACP National Director of Unit Field Operations and Membership The Rev. Gill Ford, Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright and The Rev Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness Second row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Secretary Arlene Anderson, Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Bishop E.F. Perry, Cleveland NAACP Second Vice President Sara J. Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge, and Attorney James Hardiman. 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.kathywraycolemanonlinene