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Congresswoman Fudge to receive President's Award at Cleveland NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner tonight, Arnold Pinkney, Shayla King and Delon White to get awards too, keynote speaker is Dr. William Pickard, Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith says local chapter is moving in new direction

- June 14, 2013

Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) 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 newspapers ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Hts. Democrat who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, will receive the President's Award from the Cleveland Chapter NAACP at its 54th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Friday, June 14 at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Cleveland. (For tickets call 216-231-6260) Other award recipients are political guru Arnold Pinkney, Shayla King, and Delon White. The theme for the event is "Turning The Pages of History," and the keynote speaker is Dr. William Pickard, an entrepreneur and former executive director of the local branch.

Updated: Former Sun News and Call and Post Newspapers Journalist Caesar Powell dies of heart attack

- May 28, 2013

Powell Caesar 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 newspapers ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Powell Caesar, a mover and shaker in Cleveland's elite Black political community who was a former columnist for the Sun News Newspaper and wrote editorials for the Call and Post Newspaper with its general counsel and former Cleveland City Council President George Forbes, died Monday of a heart attack, a family spokesperson said. A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office and an influential affiliate of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP that Forbes led for more than 20 years until last year, Powell, 63, was a Republican that wrote conservative columns in the Sun News that sometimes unnerved Blacks. But he also took on White folks

Black on Black Crime Inc,. Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, community activists picket Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Safety Committee Chair Councilman Kevin Conwell, city council over disproportionate abundance of red light traffic ticket cameras on majority Black east side that they say that as situated primarily in Black community represent racial profiling and are unconstitutional by targeting young Blacks, activists will discuss issue, among other matters, at forum with community activists and Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci on Thursday, May 30 at 6 pm at Lil Africa in Cleveland, 6816 Superior Ave., read here to find out where the 42 new red light traffic ticket cameras will be erected at intersections throughout the city of Cleveland

- May 26, 2013

Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who chairs Cleveland City Council's safety committee, and who introduced legislation for 42 more red light traffic ticket cameras that city council passed last week, most on the majority Black east side of the city. Conwell is also under fire for being quiet about no Blacks on Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's law enforcement leadership team, the rape and murders of Black women, and the gunning down of unarmed Blacks and others by Cleveland police. Community Activist Art McKoy, who leads Black on Black Crime Inc. and who led a picket against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland City Council on Friday over a disproportionate abundance of red light traffic ticket cameras on the predominantly Black east side of Cleveland Cleveland Mayoral Hopeful and Millionaire Businessman Ken Lanci, who will participate in a community forum with community activists on Thursday, May 30 at 6 pm at Lil Africa in Cleveland, 6816 Superior A

Cleveland NAACP picket for support on 137 bullets deadly police shooting, judicial impropriety, rape, murders and abduction of women, Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud to be rescheduled after Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith secretly changed meeting location at last minute and Mayor Jackson sends blond, White, cocky Cleveland cops to intimidate activists, Blacks, Imperial Women, and families of raped and murdered Black women that came to rally,...White 7th district cops prowled the church premises where the rally was to be held hunting Blacks, women and innocent activists and pulled over cars of rape and murder victims families that came to the rally without reasonable suspension as required by law and ran license plates through racial profiling in alleged violation of their First Amendment rights,..... activists to meet this week to decide next move, activists say they were racially profiled, compliments of a Black mayor with no Blacks among his top brass

- May 14, 2013

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson , who is seeking a third four year term as mayor this year . (Editor's Note: There is no city charter limitation on how many terms a Cleveland mayor or city council member can serve. They can serve indefinitely) 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Malissa Williams 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Timothy Ray Russell Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith Christine Malone, 45, raped and murdered in Cleveland in late March. Her body was found on Cleveland's east side at East 93rd. St and Bessemer Ave. The killer is still at large. Malone has eight children and they say that Cleveland police ignored their missing person's report and allegedly said "call us if you find her." Malone's body was found two days later in a field. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online New Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2

Community activists target Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty at April 29 Cleveland City Hall 150 persons rally on November deadly 137 bullets police chase, Mayor Jackson blames McGinty for delay in possible police firings, FEDS forum held across town with U.S. district attorney, NAACP, ACLU, watch the coverage of the City Hall rally here with video by 19 Action News Reporter Tiffiani Tucker, activists threaten Mayor Frank Jackson with voting him out of office this year if the 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets are not fired

- April 30, 2013

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor The Rev. Larry Harris Black on Black Crime Inc. Founder and Community Activist Art McKoy Black on Black Crime Vice President and Community Activist Al Porter (center) and other members of the grassroots community group that fights against injustices. Community Activist Don Bryant, who leads The People's Forum and The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network. Bryant and other community activists called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to bring in a special prosecutor at a Cleveland City Hall rally on Monday. The demand for McGinty's recusal is relative to the possible Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indictment of Cleveland police officers who gunned down two unarmed Blacks w

Press Conference at 5:15 pm, April 24, PIZZZA AND REFRESHMENTS TO FIRST 80 PEOPLE THERE...Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith to join group at 5:30 pm as a guest leader of community forum with Imperial Women, community activists, family members of deadly Cleveland police shootings victims and families of Black women murdered and raped in Cleveland on Wednesday, April 24 at the Chateau Mansion in East Cleveland, 13124 Euclid Ave, Rev David Hunter, who leads the Cleveland NAACP Housing Committee, will be there, POLICE NOT INVITED, press conference and meeting are both at the Chateau, previous Cleveland NAACP picket canceled (Note: Speakers at the press conference include Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents gunned down Cleveland police victims Tim Russell, Daniel Ficker and Kenneth Smith, the families of Smith Ficker and 137 bullets shooting victim Malissa Williams, a daughter and son of raped and murder victim Christine Malone, who was killed late last month and has eight children, East Cleveland Councilman Nate Martin and Community Activists Khalid Samad, Al Porter, Roz McAllister, Donna Walker Brown, and Kathy Wray Coleman), Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell to attend, meeting is open to the public, Cleveland Councilmen Johnson, Reed and Conwell invited too and activists pray that they do not need permission from Cleveland police to attend, activists expect them there

- April 23, 2013

137 bullets Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both gunned down on Nov. 29 by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from downtown Cleveland that led police to neighboring East Cleveland. Both were unarmed and no criminal charges against the police assailants that are still on the job seem imminent. Jazmine Trotter, 20, raped and murdered in Cleveland late last month. Her lifeless body was found in an abandoned home on the city's predominantly Black east side. Christine Malone, 45, raped and murdered in Cleveland late last month. Her body was also found on Cleveland's east side at East 93rd. St and Bessemer Ave. days after Trotter's body was found less than a mile away. Malone has eight children and they say that Cleveland police ignored their missing person's report and allegedly said "call us if you find her." Malone's body was found two days later in a field, her family m

Updated: Community activists to picket Cleveland NAACP at 5:00 pm on April 25 if legal redress committee meeting to address deadly Cleveland police shootings, Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial corruption, jobs, etc is not scheduled by next week as promised by the chair of the legal redress committee for the past nine weeks, community activists say that Legal Redress Committee Chairperson Una Keenon should either hold a meeting as promised or that she and Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith should both step down, activists also plan to picket office of county prosecutor Tim McGinty over deadly shootings

- April 13, 2013

137 bullets Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both gunned down on Nov. 29 by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from downtown Cleveland that led police to neighboring East Cleveland. Both were unarmed and no criminal charges against the police assailants that are still on the job seem imminent By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Imperial Women and other community activists groups have voted to picket the offices of the Cleveland NAACP On April 25 at its headquarters at 2131 Stokes Blvd. in Cleveland if an open legal redress committee meeting to address deadly shootings by Cleveland police, Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial impropriety and a host of other community issues that NAACP officials promised to hold for the past nine weeks is not scheduled by next week. "We have been patient enough," said Ka

Attorney of 137 bullets shooting victim Tim Russell to headline with Imperial Women Coalition, community activists at Cleveland NAACP meeting tonight, Monday, March 11, 7 pm, University Circle United Methodist Church, 1919 E. 107th St at Chester Ave in Cleveland, ...Families of deadly Cleveland police shooting victims to attend, ..Activists to discuss welfare rights, jobs, deadly Cleveland police shootings, foreclosure impropriety, disparities in sentencing against Blacks, education, ...Meeting is open to the public,... Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith (pictured) says he welcomes community activists but that the media are not invited

- March 11, 2013

Newly Elected Cleveland Chapter NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of 137 bullets Cleveland police shooting victim Timothy Ray Russell. Gilbert will headline a community forum at the regular meeting of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP on Monday March 11 at 7 pm at The University Circle United Methodist Church in Cleveland, 1919 E. 107th St. at Chester Ave. 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Malissa Williams 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Family members and attorneys of alleged excessive force Cleveland police deadly shooting victims and community activists will attend the Cleveland NAACP meeting tonight, Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7 p