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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 ...
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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 ...
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Community activists meet with Cleveland NAACP officials to discuss foreclosure impropriety, abandoned homes, rape and murder of greater Cleveland women, education, the legal system and courts, and the 137 shots deadly Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, Cleveland NAACP Attorneys Michael Nelson and James Hardiman leave meeting pouting after failing to convince Smith to ignore activists while they continue taking money to allegedly sellout the Black community as co-chairs of the Cleveland NAACP legal redress and criminal justice committees

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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    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio- The  Cleveland Chapter NAACP entertained a discussion by community activists at its general membership meeting yesterday   at the University Circle  United Methodist Church  in Cleveland. Issues  include  education,  the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell,  housing discrimination, foreclosures, abandoned homes, the rape an...
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300 Clevelanders rally for Trayvon Martin as part of Rev Al Sharpton and NAN's 100 Cities Vigil and Rally for "Justice for Trayvon," groups join Sharpton in calling for Florida boycott, federal Civil Rights charges against Zimmerman, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. is keynote speaker at rally, rally is organized by Greater Cleveland NAN President Marcia McCoy

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  Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio rally for justice for slain Black teen Trayvon Martin Community activists from across the country rally for justice for Trayvon Martin By CD Newton,      General  Assignment  Reporter  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Reach CD Newton at newton@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-“No Justice, No Peace!” That familiar chant rose in crescendo in the courtyard of the Carl B. Stokes U.S. District Courthouse in Cleveland, Oh. on Saturday at noon as Civil Rights leaders, Black clergy , c ommunity activists and a host of others gathered as part of a 100 cities rally and vigil for "Justice for Trayvon Martin," a nationwide event sponsored by the Rev Al Sharpton (pictured), his National Action Network (NAN), and Sharpton's local chapter group.  The chants   loom...
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Cleveland Urban News.Com update on meeting today, July 10, at 5:30 pm at the Chateau with Judge Sara Harper, third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP and on 150 persons meeting yesterday with community activists, family members of victims of police killings, rape, and murder with Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright

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Cleveland Urban News.Com Update ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ): Community activists leaders or their representatives will meet today, July 10 at 5:30 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Ave, with Judge Sara J. Harper, the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, to develop strategy around the issues below we want addressed by the Cleveland NAACP and other community groups, and elected officials of consequence.  Judge Sara J. Harper The meeting yesterday, July 9, with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright with community activists and family members of victims of rape, murder and police killings went well and drew some 150 people. Speakers at the gathering include Rev. Smith, Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, East Cleveland Council persons Barbara Thomas and Nate Martin, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, activists and victims family members.  The mother of...
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