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Cleveland NAACP, activists to host community hearing today on Cuyahoga County Jail following 7 recent jail deaths, an FBI investigation, and a finding by U.S. Marshals of unconstitutional jail violations, including inadequate health care, withholding food from inmates for punishment, juveniles housed with adults, pregnant women housed on the floor, harassment of inmates by management and jail staff, and roach and rat infested jail facilities....Cleveland Judge Michael Nelson Sr, who made national news for refusing to send low level offenders to the jail due to the deaths, will be in attendance, his personal bailiff told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, in cooperation with area community activist groups, will host a community hearing on the Cuyahoga County Jail on Thursday Dec. 6 from 6 pm-8pm  at Mount Sinai Baptist Church on Cleveland's  largely Black east side. The overcrowded county jail last year merged with the Cleveland jail, which paid the county

Former Cleveland NAACP president Michael Nelson Sr to be sworn in as a Cleveland judge on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 4:30 pm at Cleveland City Council chambers on Lakeside Avenue with a reception to follow.... Nelson is newly remarried, having remarried his ex-wife earlier this month....By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former Cleveland NAACP president Michael Nelson Sr., who gave up the post last year to run for a seat on the 13-member largely Black Cleveland Municipal Court, will be sworn in on Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:30 pm in chambers of Cleveland City Council on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland. A reception will follow. For more information call (216) 505-0204 or

On leave former Cleveland NAACP president Michael Nelson Sr accused of rape by woman who posted naked pictures of him on Faceook as he battles Judge Michael Sliwinski for a judicial seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court bench, Marlene Ridenour also a candidate in the closely watched judicial race....Nelson has not been charged, though police are investigating the rape allegation that Nelson says is political and comes from a scorned woman....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Michael Nelson Sr. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Controversial on-leave president of the Cleveland NAACP Michael Nelson Sr., who took the leave of absence from the local Civil Rights organization to run for a seat on the 13 member largely Black Cleveland Municipal Court, has been accused of rape as the Nov 7 general election nears and Nelson is a heated race with Judge Michael Sliwinsaki, a Whit

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch opposes request for changes in the consent decree on Cleveland police reforms made by the Cleveland NAACP amid a squabble between branch lawyers against Mayor Jackson and National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks....The disagreement could bring prolonged litigation that Lynch does not want....The controversy comes on the heels of Judge John O'Donnell's racist Brelo verdict, a verdict supported by County Prosecutor Tim McGinty....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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U.S.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch 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 five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Cleveland NAACP Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which is led by Loretta Lynch, the country's first Black female attorney general, has filed a brief in federal district court opposing changes to a consent decree on police reforms in Cleveland requested last week in an amicus brief filed by the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborativ

Cleveland NAACP demands changes in consent decree between city of Cleveland and DOJ on police reforms, including barring police from policing themselves, bias free policing, and an inspector general that does not report to Police Chief Calvin Williams....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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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 five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborative for a Safe, Fair and Just Cleveland, and the Cleveland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild held a press conference earlier today to announce the filing today of an amicus brief in federal district court in response to the consent decree on police reforms negotiated with the city of Cleveland and the federal government.  (Editor's note

The Call and Post Newspaper, led by former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, attacks Cleveland NAACP President the Rev Hilton Smith and the local branch leadership team as sad in editorial, the editorial attack follows a racist verdict by Judge O'Donnell that cleared Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of gunning down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets, and racial unrest relative to Cleveland police murders of unarmed Blacks in general, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice,Tanisha Anderson, and Kenneth Smith...Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara Harper calls for unity, says the local branch will survive the crisis.... The national NAACP has stopped branch elections as local infighting continues....Forbes is also a former Cleveland City Council president.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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First row from left: National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks,  NAACP National Director of Unit Field Operations and Membership the Rev. Gill Ford, Cleveland  NAACP President the Rev. Hilton Smith Second row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara J. Harper, Cleveland NAACP Attorney Michael Nelson, and  Cleveland NAACP Attorney James Hardiman Third row from top from left:  Cleveland NAACP Secretary Arlene Anderson, Cleveland NAACP First Vice President the Rev Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness, and  former Cleveland NAACP president and current Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George L. Forbes Bottom row: Local architect Kent Whitley, who says he will seek the presidency of the Cleveland NAACP when the national headquarters releases a hold on branch elections.   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: 216-659-047