Kathy Wray Coleman honored by the city of Cleveland on March 19, 2016 for her journalism and activism....Coleman leads the Imperial Women Coalition and is editor-in-chief at www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader....Coleman interviewed now President Barack Obama via a one-on-one interview that Obama requested

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 Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman is a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Kathy Wray Coleman

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, Cleveland, Ohio- Longtime greater Cleveland community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the local grassroots group the Imperial Women Coalition and edit's Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, received an award from the city of Cleveland on March 19, 2016 for her activism and journalism during a women's month program sponsored by the city.

Coleman was notified of the honor prior to the forum by Community Relations Board Director Blaine Griffin, the right hand man of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and Yvonne Pointer, a community relations liaison for the city and published author and activist who works under Griffin.

"I am honored and surprised," said Coleman. "I thank all who had a part in the decision to recognize me, including the mayor, Mr. Griifin and Ms. Pointer."

Coleman said that "I extend a special thank you to greater Cleveland grassroots community activists, both Black and White alike, who have been with us in the trenches from the rape and murder of poor and other women and children across racial lines to police brutality and deadly force issues."

Coleman has led rallies on behalf of women raped or murdered in greater Cleveland from the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by now death row inmate Anthony Sowell, a convicted serial killer, to the murders of four women near East 93rd Street in Cleveland to the west side decade-long captivity of Amanda Barry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight by Ariel Castro. The serial murders in East Cleveland by suspected serial killer Michael Madison is another matter that Coleman has addressed with community activists and has led rallies around.

Coleman even led a picket in front of Mayor Jackson's home in Cleveland in 2009 as activists called for more diversity in his law enforcement leadership team in the wake of the Imperial Murders. That protest, and other initiatives, resulted in 22- recommendations by a three-member committee appointed by the mayor for reforms regarding missing persons reports and rape and murder of women. It also contributed to the promotion of deputy Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams, who is Black, to police chief.

She has also fought for justice for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police gunned down in November 2014, and has led protests as to the police killings of 137 shots victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, rapper Kenneth Smith, 18-year-old Brandon Jones, and that of Daniel Ficker, who was White, among others.

And Coleman and other community activists have lobbied state legislators to revise Ohio's unconstitutional public school funding formula that hurts poor and Black children in cooperation with the DeRolph decision issued by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Several community activists attended the invitation-only gathering at the Hilton Garden Inn in Cleveland in support of Coleman. They include Cleveland African-American Museum Executive Director Frances Caldwell, Ada Averyhart, Marva Patterson, David Patterson, Marva Patterson, Amy Hurd, Aletha Thomas, Frances Caldwell, Pierre Nappier, Christine Wilson, Al Porter, Daniel Woods, Erica Conner, John Boyd, and Brown Report Newspaper publisher Kim Brown.

Coleman has fought for public policy changes as to the county grand jury process, violence against women, police abuse and excessive force issues, educational matters, housing discrimination, the absence of a mandated random draw assignment and reassignment of Ohio trial court judges, and the list goes on.

Ms. Coleman, who is Black, holds a bachelor's degree in biological science from Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, a master's in teaching from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, a master's degree in education administration from the University of Akron, and was all but dissertation in the doctoral program in education administration at Akron. There she was admitted on a full tuition scholarship, and per the recommendation of school officials, was inducted into the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society.

Ms. Coleman's  graduate transcripts of her two master's degrees and doctoral program, where she completed all coursework and passed all comprehensive exams,  reflects straight A's. She is an academician in its purest form and believes in higher education.

Ms Coleman is a staunch Civil Rights, children's rights and women's rights advocate, and she believes in equal opportunity for all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomic status or  sexual orientation. She is the surviving spouse of Wesley Maclin Jr, a former Cleveland police officer and deputy bailiff for Housing Court, also in the city of Cleveland.
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