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Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright steps down, local Civil Rights chapter is broke and remains shut down and under investigation by national headquarters

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Sheila Wright 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. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 21-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sheila Wright has stepped down as executive director of the  NAACP's Cleveland branch  as her two-year-contract is up and the organization has essentially been shut down by the national headquarters for impropriety in what would have been an election of branch officers last year, and for other reasons. And the local chapter of the nation's most renowned Civil Rights organization that once wielded substantial influence in the greater Cleveland community i

National NAACP suspends election for Cleveland NAACP branch officers for violations of bylaws by the nominating committee per the request of Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith, the local chapter is flat broke and has not paid the executive director since June

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First row from left:  NAACP National Director of Unit Field Operations and Membership The Rev. Gill Ford, Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright Second row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara J. Harper, Cleveland NAACP Attorney Michael Nelson, and Jocelyn Travis Third row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Attorney James Hardiman, former Cleveland NAACP executive director Stanley Miller, and Cleveland NAACP Assistant Secretary Marcia McCoy Fourth row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Secretary Arlene Anderson, Cleveland NAACP First Vice President The Rev E. Theophilus Caviness, and Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Bishop E.F. Perry Bottom row: Architect Kent Whitley and former Cleveland NAACP president George L. Forbes 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 New