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Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks in Cleveland, Ohio against police killings of unarmed Black people, he condemns the Tamir Rice police shooting, and Judge John O'Donnell's acquittal of police officer Michael Brelo....Farrakhan calls Mayor Jackson a beautiful mayor whose hands are tied by a racist legal system that condones police killings of Black people....He says that the whole system needs to be taken down, and calls for a national boycott of Black Sunday and the Christmas season....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor -in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,  national leader of the Nation of Islam, who spoke to an overflow audience in  Cleveland, Ohio on September  3  and condemned  the arbitrary killings  by Cleveland  police of unarmed Black people  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 Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland police fatal 12-year-old shooting victim ...

Cleveland community activists to rally May 14 at 3:30 pm at the Justice Center to demand criminal charges against Cleveland police that killed Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and the 12 that escaped prosecution for killing Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets.....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,  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 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Greater Cleveland community activists groups, led by Puncture the Silence and Revolution Books, will rally at 3:30 pm on Thursday, May 14 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland to demand state and federal criminal charges in the police killings of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and  12 of 13 non- Black cops that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012. "We want cr...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson calls for calm as the community awaits a verdict by Judge O'Donnell in the manslaughter trial of Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo, Cleveland Black clergy support the mayor, community activists say that the mayor must know how O'Donnell will rule....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo 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 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). (If you are reading this too, you are keeping  abreast of the news from Cleveland Ohio, and from its news leader of Cleveland Urban News.Com). Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is calling for calm as an anxious community awaits a decision in upcoming days on whether  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell will find...

Community activists rally at Cleveland City Hall against police killings, call for Mayor Jackson to fire safety director McGraft, Flask, Jackson has a fixation with White men, before recently hiring a Black police chief he had no Blacks as law director, safety director, chief prosecutor, chief of police and ems commissioner with support from Black preachers, the Cleveland NAACP

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Community Activist Dionne Thomas Carmichael holds a protest sign in support of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Black boy gunned down by a White Cleveland cop on Nov 22 at a public park on the city's largely White west side for sporting a toy pellet gun. From left Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, safety  director Michael McGraft and former safety director Martin Flask, now a chief executive assistant to the mayor. Data show that Jackson, who is Black,  protects these White men at any costs, even rehiring them after both retired, and paying them annual salaries in excess of $120,000 a piece. Before recently hiring a Black police chief following calls for diversity in the top brass by community activists,  the Black mayor had no Blacks as law director, safety director, chief prosecutor, chief of police,  and ems commissioner in the predominantly Black major metropolitan city, insensitiv...

Tamir Rice funeral is today, December 3, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge demands more transparency, federal monitoring of Cleveland Police Department, Rice was killed by police

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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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The open-to- the-public  memorial service for 12-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice, who was Black and unarmed when he was gunned down by police on Nov 22 at a public  playground on the city's largely White west side, is today, Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11 am at  Mount Sinai Baptist Church on Cleveland's east side. Viewing was Sunday afternoon at Gaines Funeral Home. Rice had a toy pellet gun that he allegedly was pointing at people before police arrived following a 9-1-1 call,...

Imperial Women, activists press conference and rally are Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 5:30 pm on Cleveland serial murderer on loose, and community forum with Mayor Candidate Ken Lanci is at 6pm, both at Lil Africa, 6816 Superior Ave , Contact number is 216-659-0473

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Contact: Imperial Women Tel: 216-659-0473 Website: ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com Who:  Cleveland Urban News.Com and Community activist groups including Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Ohio Family Rights, The Fairfax Business Association,The National Association for Parental Equality, The Women's Federation, People for The Imperial Act, and The Carl Stokes Brigade Cleveland Mayoral Candidate          Ken Lanci What/When/Where/Why: Press conference and rally at 5:30 pm on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at Lil Africa in Cleveland, 6816 Superior Ave., with a community forum and panel at 6 pm with Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci.  The rally and press conference will be led by Imperial Women to call for resources by city and county officials and Cleveland police and accountability around the abduction, rape and murders of Black, Whi...