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From the Metro Desk of 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     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Free holiday meal listings for Thanksgiving day  2015 of  Thursday, November 26  in Cleveland and neighboring East Cleveland are listed below: CHATEAU NIGHT CLUB 200 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information contact 216-820-7314 DUNHAM AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1629 E 66th St., Cleveland Noon -1:30 p.m. click here for details GREATER MT. CALVARY CHURCH 10109 Nelson Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. 216-429-2477 for information HARD ROCK CAFE 230 W Huron Rd., Cleveland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Click here for the Hard Rock website HOUSE OF BLUES 308 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Click here for the HOB website MT. NEBO

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton spoke one-on-one with Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black  digital news, after a recall effort that sought to boot him from office fail short of necessary  signatures for a ballot initiative. The recall attempt  comes   as the thirty-something mayor  will host a meeting tonight, April 2, on a possible merger with neighboring Cleveland, also a largely Black impoverished city, though, unlike East Cleveland, Cleveland is a major American city.   (Editor's note: Mayor Norton will host the 6:30 pm public meeting of today, April 2, at the McGregor Nursing Home

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton has decided to push for a merger of his largely Black impoverished suburb with neighboring Cleveland, also a majority Black city that struggles financially, but is not, like East Cleveland, purportedly on the verge of possible  bankruptcy .    (Editor's note: Mayor Norton will hold a  6:30 pm public meeting to seek community support for his merger plans on Thursday, April 2 at the McGregor Nursing Home, 14900 Private Drive in East Cleveland) Cleveland has a population of roughly 375,000 residents, and is  about  58 percent Black.  East Cleveland has a  population  of so

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, Tel: (216) 659-0473  K athy 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 ) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to resign at a community forum in East Cleveland Thursday evening relative to the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30,  and Timothy Russell, 43.  The groups, which include Black on Black Crime, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Imperial Women Coalition, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Social Justice Committee, and the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, also are

GREATER CLEVELAND COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS TO REMEMBER ANGELA DESKINS, SHETISHA SHEELEY AND SHIRELLDA TERRY AND OTHER GREATER CLEVELAND WOMEN SUBJECTED TO HEINOUS VIOLENCE AT A 12:30 PM RALLY AND VIGIL ON SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 AT THE INTERSECTION OF SHAW AND HAYDEN AVENUES IN EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO (FOR DIRECTIONS TAKE EUCLID AVENUE FROM DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND TO SHAW HIGH SCHOOL, TURN LEFT ON SHAW AVENUE AND GO A FEW BLOCKS TO HAYDEN AVENUE. CALL (216) 659-0473 FOR MORE INFORMATION)  From left: Angela Deskins,  Shirellda Terry and  Shetisha Sheeley  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  K athy 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.kathywraycol

Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Eugene Ward Jr. 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 who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- The United Pastors in Mission, the Baptist Ministers Conference, the Mount Pleasant Ministerial Alliance, East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, Black elected officials, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright,  family members of rape and murder victims, and community activists gathered on August 2 for a well attended press conference, balloon launch and rally in East Cleveland that drew Cleveland news television