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Judge Melody Stewart sworn in to Ohio Supreme Court and is the first Black elected to that court...Stewart was an 8th District Court of Appeals judges out of Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, ....The seven-member Ohio Supreme Court was all -White and all-Republican before the November election and now adds two Democrats to its conservative bench, , Stewart, and Judge John O'Donnelly, a former Couahoga County Court of Common Please.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman ofClevelandurbannews.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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Democratic Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael P. Donnelly and Democratic 8th District Court of Appeals Judge Melody Stewart of Cuyahoga County, who won the two open seats on the Ohio Supreme Court relative to Tuesday's general election, Stewart becoming the first Black and first Black woman elected to Ohio's high Court and the duo joining five Republicans, all of them White, to add two Democrats to the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court bench. Cuyahoga County includes the largely Black city of Cleveland and is roughly 29 percent Black. 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 Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning

Cleveland activists to protest bad cops on December 11, 2017 at 10 am on the steps of the Justice Center in Cleveland and against malicious prosecutions, mass incarceration of the Black community, fixed indictments, bad lawyers, a racist and unconstitutional grand jury process, excessive bonds, and prosecutorial malfeasance....An 11 am hearing in 18 C of Judge Nancy Margaret Russo's courtroom will follow to address indictment fixing against Blacks, women and activists, and cop harassment against Blacks, women and activists with University Hts cops and others on hand for questioning as to malfeasance...Activists want University Hts Police Sgt Dale Orians indicted for stalking Black women residents, and felony theft in office....The protest is to be led by activists Alfred Porter Jr and Art McKoy....Call (216) 659-0473 and (216) 804-6482 for more info....Participating activist groups include Black on Black Crime Inc, Black Man's Army, Imperial Women Coalition, Refusefacism.Org, and Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor....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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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 Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Greater Cleveland community activists, led by Black on Black Crime Inc, Refusefacim.Org, Black Man's Army, and the Imperial Women Coalition, will protest at 10 am on Monday, December 11, 2017 on the steps of the Justice Center at Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland against the epidemic of bad cops in greater Cleveland, malicious prosecutions, mass incarcerati

Community activists to host candidates for Cleveland mayor public forum on August 22, 2017 at Angie's Soul Cafe on St Clair Avenue at 5:30 pm with candidates for the Cleveland Municipal Court for the full term commencing January 5, 2018 also participating....Contact (216) 659-0473 for more information....Activists, led by Black on Black Crime Inc., Imperial Women Coalition, BADASS Teachers, BEMAD, Carl Stokes Brigade, Black Man's Army, International Women's Day March Cleveland, the Cleveland African-American Museum, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, and Protecting Our Children's Safety Before and After School, to also briefly address the issues of education, police matters, violence against women and children, the legal system, the $15 minimum wage battle, the Q-Deal, racial profiling, jobs and housing, and White supremacy, including the Charlottesville fiasco and a recent beating by White cops in Euclid Ohio of an unarmed Black male motorist that went viral....Candidates for any office this year are also invited to drop off literature or to be recognized at the gathering, organizers said....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland community activists will host a candidates for Cleveland mayor public forum at 5:30 pm on Tues., Aug 22, 2017 at Angie's Soul Cafe at 3400 St Clair Avenue in Cleveland with Cleveland mayoral candidates state Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), Ward 10 Councilman J

Community activists to attend consent decree for Cleveland police reforms status conference before federal Judge Solomon Oliver at 3 pm on January 6, 2017 as watch dogs and are concerned as to police killings, President Obama leaving office and consent decrees getting watered down under Trump, and a proposed Cleveland policy that would allow police to send people to mental institutions at traffic stops and otherwise in the absence of a court order or a recommendation from a mental health professional....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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United States President Barack Obama, who officially leaves office on January 20 Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio  Chief Judge Solomon Oliver, who oversees the consent decree for police reforms between the City of Cleveland and the U.S.  Department of Justice Current United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 3.5 million views on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com Cleveland Urban News.Com, via editor Kathy Wray Coleman, interviewed now president Barack Obama one-on-one.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .  Cleveland Urban News.Com-Cleveland, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists will attend,  as watch dogs,  the status conf

Blacks Do Matter rally set for Monday, March 7, 2016 at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, an event sponsored by Black clergy, community activists, and family members of victims of Cleveland police killings...The event contact numbers are Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473 and Al Porter of Black of Black Crime Inc. at 216-804-7462.....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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(By  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) , Ohio's Black digital news leaders) PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS TO  CLEVELAND JUSTICE CENTER RALLY BY BLACK CLERGY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AGAINST POLICE KILLINGS  OF UNARMED TAMIR RICE, TANISHA ANDERSON, MALISSA WILLIAMS, TIM RUSSELL AND OTHERS, AND AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN  RALLY AT NOON ON MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016.  CONTACT PERSONS ARE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN OF THE IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION AT (216) 659-0473 AND AL PORTER JR. OF BLACK ON BLACK CRIME INC AND THE BLACK MAN'S ARMY AT (216) 804-7462...OTHER ACTIVIST GROUPS INCLUDE PEACE IN THE HOOD, THE CARL STOKES BRIGADE, REVOLUTION BOOKS, THE CLEVELAND PEOPLE'S FORUM, SISTER TO SISTER, THE MILLION WOMEN MARCH CLEVELAND, STOP TARGETING OHIO'S POOR, THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE'S NATION, AND THE CLEVELAND CHAPTER OF THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY Who:  Greater Cleveland Black clergy of the Feder

Tamir Rice News: The Cleveland 8 file a direct appeal of Judge Adrine's order not to issue arrest warrants against Cleveland cops involved in the shooting death of Tamir Rice after the state appeals court dismisses their petition seeking the arrest warrants saying that a direct appeal is the proper route.... Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty says that police that kill Blacks should not be pre-charged with felonies at the municipal level like Black people....Some community activists want the state law amended to exclude municipal court judges altogether as to felonies, saying they since they cannot hear felony trials by law and that because in Ohio only a county grand jury can formally bring state felony charges via an indictment, they should not be issuing preliminary felony charges with arrest warrants and high bonds that disproportionately target Blacks.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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The Rev. Dr R.A. Vernon, senior pastor at The Word Church , a mega church in greater Cleveland The Rev Dr. Jawanza Colvin, senior pastor at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland Activist Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland chapter of CAIR-Ohio Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- A   three-judge panel of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals on Friday d