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Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright steps down, local Civil Rights chapter is broke and remains shut down and under investigation by national headquarters

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Sheila Wright 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 21-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 — Sheila Wright has stepped down as executive director of the  NAACP's Cleveland branch  as her two-year-contract is up and the organization has essentially been shut down by the national headquarters for impropriety in what would have been an election of branch officers last year, and for other reasons. And the local chapter of the nation's most renowned Civil Rights organization that once wielded substantial influence in the greater Cleveland community i
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Cleveland NAACP, community activists, Imperial Women to hold community forum on deadly shooting by Cleveland police, foreclosures, sentencing disparities, judicial assignments and reassignments in Ohio trial courts, Emilliano case, and education issues with new Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright and new legal redress chair Retired Judge Una H.R. Keenon on Monday, February 4 , 5 pm to 7 pm, MLK Public Library in Cleveland, 1962 Stokes Blvd., Cleveland officials to attend, Rep. Patmon to moderate forum, public can speak, 15 speakers to date, Activist Art McKoy to speak, Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith to speak at noon today, February 1, at City Club in downtown Cleveland, Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith to speak at City Club in downtown Cleveland

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The Rev. Hilton Smith, president of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP and an associate minister at the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland Sheila Wright, the newly appointed executive director of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-n-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community activists groups and family members of slain 137- bullets unarmed Cleveland police shooting victim Malissa Williams will meet with newly appointed Cleveland Chapter NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright and newly appointed legal redress committee chairperson Retired East Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Una H.R. Keenon (pictured to the right) on Monday, Feb. 4. from 5 pm to 7 pm for a community forum at the Martin Luther King Public Library in Cleveland, 1962 Stokes Blvd. The MLK library is near University circle and a bloc
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