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Revolutionary Communist Party, Black on Black Crime Inc, other activist groups to picket City Hall in Cleveland at 6 pm on October 19 for justice for 12-year old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police shot and killed last year....The City Hall protest follows demands by activists and Rice's mother and her attorneys for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to step aside from the grand jury indictment process on possible criminal charges against police....McGinty is racist and otherwise prejudiced and is under fire for tainting the grand jury process with erroneous expert reports to help cops involved in the Rice shooting escape criminal charges, activists and Rice's mother and attorneys say....The national Revolutionary Communist Party is led by Bob Avakian....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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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,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  National Revolutionary Communist Party leader Bob Avakian CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and others seeking justice for  slain 12-year-old Tamir Rice will protest at 6 pm at Cleveland City Hall today, Oct. 19,  in downtown Cleveland, according to the grassroots local and national group Revolution Books, which is led locally by community activist Bill Swain, and nationally (out of New York City) by communist leader Bob Avakian. "I will likely be there," said longtime community act
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Community activists to rally and camp out overnight at 11:59 pm on Sunday April 26 to protest Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo, who is on trial before Judge John O'Donnell and accused of gunning down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets....Activists are also angry that O'Donnell dismissed gun charges.... The camp out is at the Justice Center on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland with a protest at 11 am on April 27....Call Art McKoy at (216) 253-4070 for more information....The protest is also for national police killings and Baltimore police victim Freddie Gray....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo An array of Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of November  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 unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams died at the scene. Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell 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, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 ye
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Community activist James Box to be sentenced today, Monday, August 18, 9:00 am, courtroom 23 at Cuyahoga County Justice Center, activists to attend sentencing, Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found that Blacks get harsher sentences than similarly situated Whites by largely White Cuyahoga County judges, NFL great Jim Brown paid for Box's attorney Richard Drucker, Attorney Drucker, Community activist Art McKoy, Imperial Women Coalition comment

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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- Community activist James Box will be sentenced before Common Pleas Judge John Sutula on Monday, August 18 at 9:00 am in courtroom 23 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland relative to a plea deal he took in a pending criminal case involving two women. He had originally pleaded not guilty. Community activists, including Black on Black Crime Founder Art McKoy, will attend to witness if the proceedings are fair since a Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found conclusively that Blacks, and Black men in particular, get harsher sentences than their similarly situated White counter
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Plain Dealer and NOMG article on November 29 first anniversary rally and vigil of deadly 137 shots tragic shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell by 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers, also get this Plain Dealer article on the stands today, November 30, 2013

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By  Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group   (NOMG) Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   on November 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, updated  November 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM Malissa Williams and Tim Russell CLEVELAND, Ohio – The number 137 is standing out to many community groups in Cleveland like few others. That’s the number of shots 13 Cleveland  police officers fired at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams a year ago Friday , ending a 25-minute police chase across Cleveland into neighboring East Cleveland. And 365 days later, some of those  community groups  say they have seen little done to correct “the worst catastrophe in the police department’s history.” ( Read on below or  CLICK THIS LINK HERE TO READ THE FULL PLAIN DEALER STORY AT CLEVELAND.COM AND TO WATCH THE ASSOCIATED VIDEO  ) “Ninety percent of the people we talk to in the community feel that Malissa and Timothy have not gotten any justice,” said Art McKoy, founder of Black On Black Crime. The r
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Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci to take questions from community activists, community members tonight, October 9, 2013, 7:30 pm, Black on Black Crime Inc. meeting, at McCall's,14660 Euclid Avenue

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From left: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and Community Activist Art McKoy,  founder  of the community activist group Black on Black Crime Inc. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  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- Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci will take questions from community activists and other community members at 7:30 pm tonight, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at Black on Black Crime headquarters at McCall's at 14660 Euclid Ave. For more information contact Community Activist Art McKoy at 216-253-4070. Black on Black Crime President Ernie Harris will moderate the event, organizers said. "This is a forum for people to hear Ken Lanci's political platform and to ask question
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Community activists, Clevelanders rally locally for justice for Trayvon Martin, rally led by Community Activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc., activist groups also include the Oppressed People's Nation, Imperial Women, Knowledge, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Underground Railroad, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Revolution Books, ...137 bullets Cleveland police fatal shooting of two unarmed Blacks mentioned by activists at rally

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Led by Community Activist Art McKoy, activists in  in Cleveland rallied on July 15 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in the city's downtown area for Trayvon Martin and said that more rallies around the racially temperamental controversy are being organized. Protesters hold up a giant size poster of slain Black teen Trayvon Martin after a Florida jury on Saturday acquitted night watchman George Zimmerman of all charges,  including second degree murder. The jury verdict has sparked racial unrest across America, highlighting to some, community activists say, that a young Black life means little or nothing.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black  newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist out of the  Cleveland, Oh
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Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci kicks off campaign with support from some community activists, Lanci and Community Activist Art McKoy will distribute food, other goods to Imperial Ave. residents in Cleveland, who live on the street were serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 Black women at his home, at 5 pm on Tuesday, June 25

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Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci 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 newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci kicked off his campaign for mayor in hopes of unseating popular two term Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson before a crowd of some 150 supporters at the Embassy Suites in Independence on Tuesday evening. (Editor's Note: Lanci will distribute food and other goods to residents on Imperial Ave in Cleveland with Community Activist Art McKoy and others at 5 pm on Tuesday, June 25. Imperial Ave. is infamous internationally and across the country where 11 Black women were found murdered on the street on the city's largely Black east side in the home of since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, who sit
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