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Lorain Councilman Angel Arroyo Jr. arrested and comments to Clevelandurbannews.com, Arroyo a Hispanic and former Cleveland west side activist who rallied for the Seymour Avenue victims as a Guardian Angel....Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and led anniversary rallies as to the release from decade-long captivity of Ariel Castro victims Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry that Arroyo attended, said community activists support Councilman Arroyo ....Arroyo traveled to Puerto Rico in October and two other times as to the devastation relative to Hurricane Maria and he received a community service award as a member of the Guardian Angels before he became councilman in Lorain, an award issued by the city of Cleveland and Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams....Lorain is a city some 30 miles west of Cleveland....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Lorain Councilman and former Cleveland community activist Angel Arroyo Jr. Angel Arroyo Jr. (standing fifth from left) with the Guardian Angels in Cleveland before he was elected councilman in Lorain, and as the group is recognized by the city of Cleveland and Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams (standing fourth from left) in November 2014 for community service and keeping down violence in the city through community patrols. Pictured standing first from left is now Cleveland Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin, who was the director of the Community Relations Board for the city of Cleveland when Arroyo was honored for his community service in 2014 Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in

Greater Cleveland community activist Kathy Wray Coleman harassed at gun point by a group of White University Heights policemen carrying guns and rifles, and allegedly called nigger..... Coleman says that the police harassment is for her activism, and writings, and for leading activists' meeting last week with NAACP, DOJ on police brutality and racial unrest as to the upcoming Brelo verdict....Coleman says she fears for her life....University Heights police and JPMorgan Chase Bank had broken into Coleman's University Height's home without a court order or eviction, and stole all her her property, including her furniture and a $20,000 collector's car, and have hidden the property from her.....Coleman said that Chase has burglarized her home on at least seven occasions with support of police and the office of the Cuyahoga County prosecutor....Several people are behind the harassment, says Coleman, including police, and Brelo Judge John O'Donnell whom Coleman says has stalked her for 12 years using a housing case he has no authority or jurisdiction to preside over....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Community activist Kathy Wray Coleman (above) speaks to the mainstream media at an anti-police brutality rally in  greater  Cleveland in response to Cleveland police shootings of unarmed Blacks . T o the right of Ms. Coleman is the mother of Malissa Williams, whom police shot and killed in 2012 along with Timothy Russell while slinging 137 bullets. Neither victim was wanted by the law, and both were Black and unarmed when they were unceremoniously gunned down .  Coleman helped to organize the rally on behalf of the Imperial Women Coalition. A verdict in the manslaughter trial of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo is expected to come down soon by common pleas judge John O'Donnell, who is hearing the case in lieu of a jury per Brelo's request. Brelo fired 49 of  137 shots fired by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops at Williams and Russell. The other 12 police officers escaped criminal charges.  (Photo by Laura Cowan) . From the Metro Desk of  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The

Community activist James Box to be sentenced today, Monday, August 18, 9:00 am, courtroom 23 at Cuyahoga County Justice Center, activists to attend sentencing, Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found that Blacks get harsher sentences than similarly situated Whites by largely White Cuyahoga County judges, NFL great Jim Brown paid for Box's attorney Richard Drucker, Attorney Drucker, Community activist Art McKoy, Imperial Women Coalition comment

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Community Activist James Box 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's leaders in Black digital news, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone us at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activist James Box will be sentenced before Common Pleas Judge John Sutula on Monday, August 18 at 9:00 am in courtroom 23 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland relative to a plea deal he took in a pending criminal case involving two women. He had originally pleaded not guilty. Community activists, including Black on Black Crime Founder Art McKoy, will attend to witness if the proceedings are fair since a Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found conclusively that Blacks, and Black men in particular, get harsher sentences than their similarly situated White counter

Greater Cleveland community, community activists, elected officials to host 'The First Anniversary of the East Cleveland Serial Murders and Stop Violence Against Women and Find Their Killers Rally and Vigil' to remember Angela Deskins, Shirellda Terry, Shetisha Sheeley and other women subjected to violence Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 12:30 pm at the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland

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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

Community activists make demands at stop police brutality rally relative to 137 shots deadly shooting by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell

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PRESS/COMMUNITY RELEASE, JULY 1, 2014 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland c ommunity activists, other community members and police brutality victims families members gathered for a rally on July 1, 2014 in the parking lot at Heritage Middle  School   at 14410 Terrace Road in East Cleveland where a deadly shooting occurred the night of November 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and  ended   in neighboring East Cleveland. The purpose, in part, is to highlight police brutality issues and to make the following demands as to the 137 bullets fatal shooting by 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30,  and Tim Russell, 43, at Heritage Middle School that dark night in November: -That another Cuyahoga County Grand Jury convene, as is done with Black people when a previous grand jury fails to indict, since the previous grand jury failed to indict 12 of the

Community activists to protest today in East Cleveland on public comments by Cleveland police union president that Blacks allegedly with drugs in their system can be gunned down without the opportunity to surrender, protest is at 6 pm behind Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at Lee Road and Terrace Ave., county prosecutor Tim McGinty, who is pro-police, to decide if charges will be filed against the all White group of Cleveland policemen involved in the 137-bullets deadly shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell, community activists say that Cleveland and East Cleveland area Black preachers, Black elected officials need to stand up on the issue

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Malissa Williams, left, and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-n-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists will protest today, Jan 28, at 6 pm behind Heritage Middle School in East Cle veland at Lee Road and Terrace Ave. over published comments  to the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper last week by Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jerry Follmer. A veteran cop, Follmer told the Plain Dealer that the recent public announcement that the Cuyahoga County examiner allegedly found drugs in the system of shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell justifies the deadly shooting, though an investigation by the City of East Cleveland and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, and an internal investigation by Cleveland officials are underway.  Family members of Wil

Memorial service for community activist, former Call and Post reporter Grace Waite- Jones is Saturday, Dec 8, 1pm, Lucas Memorial Chapel in Gardfield Hts, Ohio near Cleveland

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Grace Waite-Jones Grace Waite -Jones and her son Asante Jones By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- The memorial service for Grace Waite- Jones, a community activist and former reporter for The Call and Post Newspaper who also fought against apartheid in South Africa,  will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 1 pm at Lucas Memorial Chapel, 9010 Garfield Blvd in Garfield Hts, a suburb of Cleveland. Waite- Jones, 65, died suddenly at her home in Cleveland on Nov. 27.  The cause of her death was unknown at press time.  Waite- Jones and her twin sister Gloria were the youngest of 10 children.  In 1967 Waite Jones wed Richard E. Jones. The couple divorced in 1970. Waite- Jones was employed in different capacities including as a Call and Post reporter in the 1970s and 1990s and briefly as its editor in the late

Community Activists call for fair trial for former Cuyahoga County Democratic Party chairperson Jimmy Dimora as it begins in federal court in Akron

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Jimmy Dimora By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) AKRON, Ohio-The political corruption and racketeering trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, the previous headstrong, hand-slapping and popular chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, begins today before Federal District Court Judge Sara Lioi in Akron. And some area community activists are questioning whether he can get a fair trial. "Why does the same judge hear all of the cases?" asked veteran community activist Ada Adveryhart, a member of the grassroots groups dubbed the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Imperial Women Coalition. "Is it because the judge is doing what they want her to do and how did this judge give former common pleas judge Steven Terry the maximum of six years in prison and he is Black while former judge Bridget McCafferty, his counterpart, faced 50 years and got 14 months, and she is White? Av