Imperial Women, other community activists call for state legislative bill that gives reparations to Ariel Castro victims to be amended to include Black women that were raped and escaped Sowell at anniversary rally to remember the 11 Black murdered female victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell, several family members of Sowell victims speak at rally as do community activists, Black clergy, elected officials, victims of rape, Republican-centered Cleveland Fox 8 News television station uses biased reporter Emily Valdez to publish negative story to try to taint event out of anger because activists want justice for the Sowell victims and their families, and reparations for Ohio Black women raped and for surviving children of Sowell's murder victims
From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND,Ohio-More than 200 people attended an anniversary rally and vigil Tuesday night to remember the 11 Black women slain at the since demolished home of serial killer Anthony Sowell, a gathering sponsored by the Imperial Women Coalition of community activists groups that include Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc, the Carl Stokes Brigade and Peace in the Hood. Cleveland police began removing the remains of the 11 women from the home on October 29, 2009 and Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the gruesome discoveries that have rocked the impoverished major American city of some 400,000 people. The event was covered by local television stations 3, 5, 19 and 8, the Plain Dealer, which is