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Eleven Cleveland cops harass Imperial Women Coalition, community activists and family members of murdered Black women at rally in Cleveland on 6th anniversary of Imperial Avenue Murders, activists and family members of murder victims to meet next week to vote to either picket the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson a third time, or to demand the resignation of fourth district police commander Brandon Kutz, who is White in a police district that is 99 percent Black....The Reverend Jimmy Gates, a Jackson ally and convicted felon who went to prison for taking bribes as a former city official, appears at rally to intimidate activist women, and tells one of them to shut the hell up while allegedly menacing her, allegedly for the Black mayor and police....Activists want criminal charges against the unemployed and out of control Gates....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell, who strangled 11 Black women to death at his since demolished home in Cleveland, Ohio  on the  majority Black city's  largely Black east side,  and raped three other  Black women. His  convictions and death sentence  are  on appeal  before the Ohio Supreme Court CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Local community activists and family  members  of murdered Black women that rallied Thursday, Oct 29 on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side to  commemorate  the  6th Anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders were met with what they say was orchestrated  harassment  by some 11 majority White Clevela

Michael Nelson Sr. wins Cleveland NAACP branch presidency over retired judge Sara Harper and calls for indictments by the grand jury hearing the case of the White Cleveland cops that gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice.... Some dues paying Cleveland NAACP members say that they were not even apprised of the branch election that only drew some 47 people and not enough candidates to fill elected seats on the executive board.... Nelson speaks to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, on his win, and said that he will work to "rebuild our membership and reestablish our partnerships with the community"....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman

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Newly elected Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson Sr.  Pictured are newly elected Cleveland NAACP first vice president James Hardiman (wearing turtleneck sweater), former C leveland NAACP president the  Rev. Hilton Smith (in red tie),  former Cleveland NAACP first vice president the  Rev. Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness  (in red bow-ti e) , former Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara J. Harper, who lost a bid for branch president against Nelson on Oct 26,  and George Forbes, a former longtime Cleveland NAACP president and former Cleveland City Council president  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, including Connie Harper,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in

Get out the Black vote, vote Tuesday, November 3, 2015, and know that your vote counts....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper

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By Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  To advertise call (216) 659-0473 or email us at advertising@clevelandurbannews.com 

Imperial Women Coalition to host the 6th anniversary rally of the Imperial Avenue Murders in Cleveland of 11 Black women, the event is on October 29 at 5;15 pm on Imperial Avenue....Activists, other Black elected officials, families of murdered Black women to also speak....Other rally issues are the at large purported serial killer that killed four women in 2013, three Black and one White, along a strip at E. 93rd Street in Cleveland, also on the city's east side, and suspected East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison, who is accused of killing three Black women and putting their remains in trash bags....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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The 11 Black women (pictured above) murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell. Sowell, his lawyers, and the ACLU want the Ohio Supreme Court to order a new trial on appeal (Editor's note: See full pictures of the 11 Black female murder victims with their names at the end of this article. Community activists vow to keep up the fight until Sowell is brought swiftly to justice). By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, including Connie Harper,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Convicte

Cleveland Urban News.Com remembers Call and Post Newspaper associate publisher and editor Constance "Connie" Harper on the first year anniversary of her death.... Harper fought all of her adult life for Black people, and for civil and human rights, and the Call and Post, published by boxing promoter Don King, was the first Black newspaper of the NNPA to endorse now president Barack Obama, America's first Black president....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Constance "Connie" Harper By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, including Connie Harper,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, remembers Call and Post Newspaper associate publisher and editor Constance "Connie" Harper, who was Black, on the one- year anniversary of her death. Harper fought all of her adult life for Black people, and for civil and human rights. (Editor's note: The Call and Post Newspaper is a longstanding Black prin

The greater Cleveland, Ohio Black Women's -PAC announces endorsements for the November 3, 2015 general election, and endorses Cuyahoga County Issue 8 while opposing statewide marijuana legalization Issue 3....Cleveland Black judges Hewitt, Tarver, Moore and Groves are endorsed, as are Black suburban mayors Brad Sellers and Fletcher Berger...Annette Blackwell, who is Black, is endorsed for Maple Heights mayor, and Ruth Gray, also Black, for South Euclid mayor....In East Cleveland, Councilwoman Thomas is endorsed as are Una H.R. Kennon and Dr. Mary Rice for the East Cleveland Board of Education, and all three of them are Black....Lakewood Judge Patrick Carroll is White but also won an endorsement, as did a few other White Democrats....Read here, the full list of BWPAC endorsements....Paid for by the BWPAC, Una H.R. Keenon, president....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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 (These herein noted endorsements are official endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee (BWPAC) and are not those of Cleveland Urban News.Com, which takes no official endorsement position to date, pro or con, of the state or countywide ballot issues or political candidates relative to the November 3, 2015 general election). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Following are endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland (BWPAC) for the November 3, 2015 general election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,  a county of some 59 municipalities, villages, and townships that includes the largely Black major American city of Cleveland and its neighboring suburbs. The endorsement assessments are relative to select state and countywide  issues on the ballot, including the statewide marijuana legalization issue, of which the organization opposes, and select municipal-level judicial, mayoral and city council candidates across Cuyahoga