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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 and advertising@celevalndurbannews.com   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition (below) speaks to the mainstream media at an anti-police brutality rally in Cleveland in response to Cleveland police shootings of unarmed Blacks, to the right of Ms. Coleman is the mother of Malissa Williams, whom police shot and killed along with Timothy Russell while slinging 137 bullets. Neither victim was wanted by the law, and both were Black and unarmed when they were unceremoniously gunned down,  Coleman helped to organize the rally on behalf of the Imperial Women Coalition, photo by Laura Cowan

Pictured is 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police shot and killed on Nov. 22 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-A rookie Cleveland police officer has shot and killed a BB gun wielding 12-year-old boy who was Black, raising questions on whether the Cleveland Police Department is out of control and whether Black boys are at risk for inadvertent or deadly-force-type Cleveland police killings. The replica gun was an air-soft BB gun, a toy gun, police said. A 2012 study reviewed by ProPublica that analyzed federal data of public shootings reveals that on a national scale, Black men and b

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- Select greater Cleveland community activists leaders will meet at an open meeting at the Lil Africa/The Kitchen Restaurant and Event Center at 6816 Superior Avenue in Cleveland at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 29 to discuss community issues. The issues, say meeting organizers, include excessive force by Cleveland police and whether community activist James Box is being railroaded relative to a pending criminal case involving two women.  Also briefly discussed will be illegal foreclosures, the epidemic of violence against women in Cuyahoga County, and whether the taking of Cleveland Ward 7 T.J. Dow'

PRESS/COMMUNITY RELEASE, JULY 1, 2014 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland c ommunity activists, other community members and police brutality victims families members gathered for a rally on July 1, 2014 in the parking lot at Heritage Middle  School   at 14410 Terrace Road in East Cleveland where a deadly shooting occurred the night of November 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and  ended   in neighboring East Cleveland. The purpose, in part, is to highlight police brutality issues and to make the following demands as to the 137 bullets fatal shooting by 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30,  and Tim Russell, 43, at Heritage Middle School that dark night in November: -That another Cuyahoga County Grand Jury convene, as is done with Black people when a previous grand jury fails to indict, since the previous grand jury failed to indict 12 of the

The chandelier at the Playhouse Square performing arts center in Cleveland, Ohio, the world's largest outdoor chandelier that was lit-up on Friday, May 2, 2014 in downtown Cleveland to highlight a $16 million cultural arts restoration project in the majority Black major American city.  The chandelier boast 4,200 crystals and stands 48 ft tall, designers said.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-n-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 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Playhouse Square theater venue in downtown Cleveland lit up Friday night as part of the 'Dazzle the District' extravaganza, an event that drew over 20,000 people to the center of the city at 14th and Euclid Avenu

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

Daniel Ficker 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- The family and friends of slain 27-year-old Daniel Ficker, who left behind two young children and a fiance, will host a fundraiser for his children and a memorial to remember him as the second anniversary of his July 4, 2011 death by Cleveland police that occurred outside of his home in Parma, Oh. nears. Parma is a middle-class suburb of Cuyahoga County that is some 15 miles south of Cleveland.  The event will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at Coe Lake behind Berea Commons from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm in Berea, Ohio, a suburb some 20 miles south of Cleveland.  Tickets for the fundraiser for Ficker's two small children are $10 and the Breakfast Club 

Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell 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 news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Below is an April 25 national and  international news article on the upcoming   April 29, 6 pm mass protest at Cleveland City Hall by community activists and victims families as to  deadly  Cleveland police  shootings  of unarmed people, including 137 bullets Black victims Malissa Williams, 30, and Tim Russell  Russell, 43 (both pictured above). The below article is published by both Yahoo News.Com and the Reuters European Newspaper, one of the world's oldest newspapers that is headquartered in London and the United Kingdom with thousands of reporters, some stationed throughout the U.S (Note: The mass rally will also address Cleveland police unjustified killings of other people like aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith, 20, (music name Kenneth Ball), and Daniel Fick