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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed to testify August 16 in his DUI trial before retired, handpicked visiting judge Larry Allen, comunity activists say Allen was handpicked by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor to unfairly dictate case outcome, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr was original judge in the case

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Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, a controversial Black east side councilman  whose ward includes the impoverished  Kinsman and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods 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 newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor CLEVELAND, Ohio- The DUI trial of Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed began today in Cleveland Municipal Court before retired visiting Willoughby, Oh. Judge Larry Allen and Reed, 51, will take the stand in his own defense Friday morning, his lawyer Kevin Spellacy told the judge at the onset of the jury trial.  Spellacy argued at trial today that city lawmaker was set up by Cleveland police, who allegedly waited for him in downtown Cle
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Updated: Former Sun News and Call and Post Newspapers Journalist Caesar Powell dies of heart attack

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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
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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed, who faces a third DUI case, got tricked by his then attorney George Forbes into pleading guilty to a second DUI previously when police did not witness him driving the car and it was parked and he should have instead been charged with the lesser charge of having physical control of a car while intoxicated but not driving it, a charge that does not require jail time as Reed got in his second DUI case because of slick Forbes, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor has handpicked a retired visiting judge from Willoughby, Ohio for Reed's third DUI case allegedly for Mayor Jackson, Forbes, others, and in violation of a state law that requires that visiting retired judges are to come from within the court's jurisdictional territory, Cleveland Municipal Court judges all recused themselves in both the second and third DUI cases at the urging of Chief Municipal Court Judge Ron Adrine to allegedly set Reed up where former Cleveland Judge Joan Synenburg properly heard Reed's first DUI case, and the claim that city council approves the court budget and that justifies the recusals is bogus where that is not a legitimate conflict and judges must have a presumption of fairness, Activist Kathy Wray Coleman says she was jailed and harassed for Mayor Jackson, Forbes, Call and Post officials, others in part for writing about judicial malfeasance and trying to warn Reed relative to his second DUI case, Coleman says she is still getting harassed and threatened and that Chief Justice O'Connor is corrupt and is harassing her too, Coleman says that Reed should seek to vacate his second DUI plea and conviction because then visiting retired judge Mary Trimboli was not and is not a retired judge as required by the Ohio Constitution

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Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor  Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, a former Cleveland Municipal Court judge who now sits on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals . Keough  allegedly won her appellate seat with an endorsement from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and is accused of fixing cases against Blacks and women in return Cleveland Municpal Court Chief Judge Ron Adrine who handpicks judges for assignments of cases in the court  to allegedly influence case outcomes based upon the judges he selects like Judge Keough, whom he allegedly would handpick for cases to manipulate case outcomes for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and others International Boxing Promoter Don King, a native of Cleveland, Ohio who publishes the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black weekly distributed in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio Kathy Wray Coleman, a community activist and former Call and Post rep
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Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes hospitalized, Forbes is a former Cleveland City Council president who lost a bid for Cleveland mayor against Michael R.White in 1989, is general counsel for the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most notable Black print publication that is owned by internationally known boxing promoter Don King

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Former Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George L. Forbes By Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-   Former Cleveland NAACP President  George L. Forbes, a notable figure in Cleveland politics and one of the city's most prominent Black leaders , has been hospitalized, though details of his illness have not been made public. Don King, a native Clevelander and international boxing promoter who publishes the Call and Post Newspaper   The legal counsel for the Call and Post Newspaper, Cleveland's Black print press that is owned by internationally known boxing promoter Don King, and a former Cleveland City Council president famous for throwing a chair at Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson and for losing a bid for mayor against former protege Michael R. White in 1989, Forbes is one of Cleveland
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Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes summons Black elected officials, leaders to meeting at Cleveland Clinic with Gov Kasich to push Mayor Jackson's education plan, only 4 Black elected officials show, Rev Caviness, SCLC members attend though previously taking on the governor for initially having no Blacks in his cabinet, Black leaders want Obama to be more hands on with them, meeting reveals, some Democrats stayed away saying their presence might be perceived as anti-Obama , Kasich wins some friends at the 50 person meeting, community activist calls meeting suspect

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Former Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George L. Forbes Ohio Governor John Kasich The Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson United States President Barack Obama By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Former Cleveland NAACP President George L. Forbes, also a former Cleveland City Council president and currently a part time local attorney who is also legal counsel  for the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press, still has clout, at least with Ohio's governor. Forbes summoned Black Democratic leaders of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to a meeting with Republican Gov. John Kasich last week to the renowned Cleveland Clinic, though only about 50 people showed, and only  four of them were Black elected officials, with some others question
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Cleveland NAACP Executive Board unanimously accepts the resignation of its president George Forbes, Cleveland Attorney James Hardiman is president until November general election

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George Forbes By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   CLEVELAND, Ohio-The  executive board of the Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP unanimously accepted the resignation of its president, George Forbes, at its monthly meeting on Tues. evening, putting to rest controversy over who was leading the Civil Rights organization while the 81-year-old Forbes has been in Florida with his wife in recent months or years. James Hardiman, the Cleveland attorney who represented the NAACP in the now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation case and the first vice president, will, by organization charter, take the helm until the November general election, one that is expected to draw a cross section of candidates including the Rev. Tony Minor,  executive director of the United Pastor's in Mission, Mount Olive Baptist Church Pastor Larry Harris, and Dr. E
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Updated At End Of Article, Monday, April 30, 2012: George Forbes resigns as Cleveland NAACP president, maybe, confusion hurts Black community, community activists say Cleveland NAACP should stand up for Black community, Forbes is famous for throwing chair at Councilman Johnson, harassing State Sen. Nina Turner by putting her in Aunt Jemima attire on cover of Call and Post Newspaper, community activists are glad Forbes is leaving, hope Blacks can get NAACP help now

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George Forbes  By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Chapter NAACP is under scrutiny because its officials cannot confirm whether its 81-year-old president or former president, semi- retired Cleveland Attorney George Forbes, is still  the president of the local chapter of the nation's most prominent Civil Rights institution. And he can't either, apparently, though he said last week that he has called it quits. (Editor's note: Read the complete article for the potential candidates for the November election for Cleveland NAACP President and see the end of the article as to the harassment of state Sen. Nina Turner by Forbes because he could not control her like some other Cleveland area Black leaders that allegedly fear him and what he might do to them if they do not cooperate when he says so on c
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Final Press Release: Protest by Imperial Women, activists against Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, March 2, 4: 30 pm, 2131 Stokes Blvd,

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Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Who: Community activists disenchanted with Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes including The Imperial Women, family members of the Imperial Ave. murder victims, People for the Imperial Act, The Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Ohio Family Rights, People for Parental Equality, The Committee to Bring Home Jamela and Jamyla and members of various other groups such as The Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Inc and The People's Forum. What: Protest and Press Conference Contacts: Marva Patterson at 216-334-7013, Ada Averyhart at 216-938-7891 and Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-2114 When: Friday, March 2, 2012 beginning at 4: 30 pm with a press conference at 4: 45 pm. Where: Cleveland NAACP headquarters
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