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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists groups, led by the local chapter of    the national Puncture the Silence-Stop Mass Incarceration Network, invite the public to join an uncle of Tamir Rice, a Ferguson Missouri activist, and others to give testimony on police brutality before a panel from 12-4 pm on Saturday, April 11 at the Cleveland State University Main Classroom Building (room 201) in downtown Cleveland at 2121 Euclid Avenue. (Interested media and others wanting additional information should

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas  Judge Lance Mason 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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio- A Black Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge charged by the city of Shaker Heights with beating his wife over the weekend received a surety bond from Shaker Heights Municipal Court Judge K.J. Montgomery more than three times the bond amount the jailed judge set in June for Patrolman Michael Brelo, who is White and faces two-counts of voluntary manslaughter in the 137 shots Cleveland police killings of unarmed Blacks Malis

Community Activist James Box From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone us at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Select greater Cleveland community activists leaders will meet at an open meeting at the Lil Africa/The Kitchen Restaurant and Event Center at 6816 Superior Avenue in Cleveland at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 29 to discuss community issues. The issues, say meeting organizers, include excessive force by Cleveland police and whether community activist James Box is being railroaded relative to a pending criminal case involving two women.  Also briefly discussed will be illegal foreclosures, the epidemic of violence against women in Cuyahoga County, and whether the taking of Cleveland Ward 7 T.J. Dow'

Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of Nov . 29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams were Black, and both died at the scene. Shooting Victim Malissa Williams Shooting Victim Timothy Ray Russell Cleveland Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of Timothy Russell relative to the affiliated Civil Rights and excessive force lawsuit that the city of  Cleveland  settled on Monday By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-n-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  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activis

PRESS/COMMUNITY RELEASE, JULY 1, 2014 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland c ommunity activists, other community members and police brutality victims families members gathered for a rally on July 1, 2014 in the parking lot at Heritage Middle  School   at 14410 Terrace Road in East Cleveland where a deadly shooting occurred the night of November 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and  ended   in neighboring East Cleveland. The purpose, in part, is to highlight police brutality issues and to make the following demands as to the 137 bullets fatal shooting by 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30,  and Tim Russell, 43, at Heritage Middle School that dark night in November: -That another Cuyahoga County Grand Jury convene, as is done with Black people when a previous grand jury fails to indict, since the previous grand jury failed to indict 12 of the

The Reverend Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Why racism is so omnipotent (powerful) (The article below is reprinted here at  Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  with the expressed permission from Call and Post Newspaper Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper). By the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. (Editors note: The Rev Dr. Otis Moss Jr., a retired former senior pastor of the prominent Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland and also a Civil Rights icon who marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights movement   Moss' comments below come on the heels of the anniversary last week of the 137 shots tragedy where unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed by 13 White Cleveland police officers shooting 137 bullets on Nov 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland, Ohio. Community activists, family members of the victims and o