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Imperial Avenue Murders vigil set for Jan 3, 2017: Ohio Supreme Court upholds Anthony Sowell's convictions and death sentence and activists will hold a criminal case closure vigil at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 on Imperial Avenue where Sowell murdered 11 Black women.....Call Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473, Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood at 216-538-4043 and Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime Inc at 216-804-7462 for more information....The Ohio Supreme Court voted 5-2 to uphold Sowell's convictions and death sentence with Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Justice William O'Neil, the only Democrat on the seven-member all White court, dissenting, O' Neil saying the death penalty is unconstitutional and O'Connor on other grounds....The NAACP opposes the death sentence while some but not all community activists say serial killers like Anthony Sowell are the exception...Black Lives Matter to also be in attendance.....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell The 11 Black women (pictured above) murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell. (Editor's note: See full pictures at the end of this atricle of the 11 Black female murder victims of Sowell ). ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the

Trial for suspected East Cleveland serial murderer Michael Madison to begin, activists, Black elected officials to rally against violence against women at 3:30 pm on Sunday January 11 at the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland where the three victims bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags: Call the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473 for more information: By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Suspected serial killer Michael Madison  From left: Angela Deskins,  Shirellda Terry and  Shetisha Sheeley, the alleged victims of suspected serial killer Michael Madison  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, educator, and 21- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -Suspected East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison will go on trial on Monday, Jan. 12, at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, and community activists will rally against violence against women on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 3:30 pm at the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland, which is adjacent to whe

A&E national television channel to feature the story of Cleveland murder victim Christine Malone on the show 'The First 48' at 9 pm on Oct 23, A&E contracts with city of Cleveland to bring awareness to violence against women, compliments of Mayor Frank Jackson, Imperial Women Coalition thank the mayor for his efforts, activists, victims and victims family members, Black leaders and others will rally at 4 pm on Oct 29 on Imperial Avenue as to the Fifth Anniversary of The Imperial Avenue Murders

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Christine Malone Murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone and Ashley Leszyeski. Their assailants are still at large, Cleveland police said.  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'sleaders in Black digital news    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- National cable channel A&E will feature Cleveland  murder victim Christine Malone on its documentary television series "The First 48," which will air at 9 pm on Thursday, Oct 23, producers and Malone's family told Cleveland Urban News.Com yesterday.  "The story on our mother will air this week," said Angelique Malone, one of eight grown children of Christine Malone and now a community activist and one of several keynote speakers at the upcoming Oct 29 4 pm rally on  violence against women on Imperial Avenue

Today marks the anniversary of the kidnapping of Ariel Castro victim Amanda Berry, community activists women, including the Imperial Women Coalition, applaud her courage and that of Ariel Castro victims Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, say they hope Castro, who hanged himself in prison, rots in hell, rescue of Berry, Knight and DeJesus came some 3 and a half years after the discovery of Imperial Avenue murder victims in Cleveland

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Ariel Castro victim Amanda Berry Ariel Castro, 53,  at sentencing on August 1, 2013 at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Next to him is one of Castro's court appointed attorney's, though demolition  crews found $22,000 when his home on the city's west side  was demolished about a week after sentencing. Castro was found dead in his prison cell in September just over a month into his sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole .        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    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) "We recognize this anniversary of the day of the kidnapping of innocent teen Amanda Berry by monster Ariel Castro less than a mile from her home as a reminder that rape and other violence against women and girls nationa

CNN covers 400 persons Imperial Women, Oppressed People's Nation violence against women rally, activists call on Obama to bring in National Guard to find missing women, State Senator Turner criticizes Governor Kasich at rally, family members of victims of serial killer, Black elected officials attend, in unrelated matter Arial Castro agrees to plea deal of life in prison for raping and kidnapping Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight

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CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com    According to a news article by Cleveland Fox 8 News Reporter Kevin Freeman, who covered the rally, hundreds  attended the  stop the violence rally held  on July 24, 2013  and organized by Imperial Women and the Oppressed People's Nation  in the wake of 3 dead bodies uncovered last week in East Cleveland, Ohio of Black women wrapped in plastic bags.  Photo by Cleveland FOX 8 news.       CLEVELAND, Ohio- A  stop the violence against women rally that drew nearly 400 people  on July 24 near the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland in the area where the decomposed bodies of 3 Black women were found wrapped in plastic bags last week at va