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Longtime Cleveland activist Alma Cooper, the sister of activist Ada Averyhart, dies....Visitation is Friday, May 27 and the wake and funeral are Saturday, May 28.....Cooper was a former Cleveland Ward 6 precinct committeewoman and was in the trenches with activists on issues impacting Cleveland's Black community, including the Art Feckner drug sting case, the Cleveland police killing of 23-year-old Michael Pipkens, and voting and other Civil Rights issues.....Retired judge Sara J. Harper called Cooper a dedicated servant and a "calm activist"....Cooper was one of 16 full siblings.....By www.clevelandurbannews.com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Alma Cooper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, 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 is a legal, educational, political and investigative journalist and is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS WHERE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN HAS 2.7 MILLION READERS OR VIEWERS UNDER HER NAME AND IS OHIO'S MOST READ REPORTER ON GOOGLE PLUS   alone  CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND-Ohio -Longtime Cleveland community activist Alma Cooper died Sunday, May, 22 after a long illness.