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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 and murder of greater Cleveland   women, and police complacency, ineptness and

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 housing committee of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP will take testimony for the NAACP in efforts to promote state and federal legislation to address the problems of  housing discrimination, foreclosures, mortgage impropriety and the abundance of abandoned homes that draw crime and heightened violence against women of greater Cleveland and elsewhere. The open-to-the-public meeting in which all community members that want to listen in or testify are invited,

Subject: Press Release on 137 shots aftermath rally coverage by mainstream media..Read below.. A message from journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman (Note: Activists  never planned the 137 shots rally in East Cleveland on March 6  for Heritage Middle School where a parent teacher conference was being held.  That was some of community activist Art McKoy's slickness for a Channel 5 article with coverage. He is becoming a distraction and a tool for the media, himself and the police, some believe. The rally went forward as planned at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, a neighboring Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, Ohio). PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA : FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS APPLAUD NEW CLEVELAND POLICE CHIEF VEHICLE PURSUIT POLICIES (NOTE: The Cleveland urban news.com article on this is coming ( WWW.CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM ) Kathy Wray Coleman Dear Mainstream Media that attended the deadly 1

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    ( 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 housing committee of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP will meet with local community activists groups, minority contractors, representatives for two prominent Ohio congresswomen,  and family members of women subjected to violence on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 5:30 pm at Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church in East Cleveland, 13028 Shaw Ave. The open meeting will address Cuyahoga County foreclosures,  housing discrimination issues, violence against women across racial lines in o

By  Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,    Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper . CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will host a testimony forum on excessive force by Cleveland and greater Cleveland police on Thursday, September 9, 2013 beginning at 5:30 pm at the Cuyahoga County Housing Authority at 8120 Kinsman Avenue in Cleveland, according to a press release from Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright. A U.S. Department of Justice representative will serve as the stenographer to record the data, Wright said. Among those testifying is Community Activist Kathy W

Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Eugene Ward Jr. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- The United Pastors in Mission, the Baptist Ministers Conference, the Mount Pleasant Ministerial Alliance, East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, Black elected officials, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright,  family members of rape and murder victims, and community activists gathered on August 2 for a well attended press conference, balloon launch and rally in East Cleveland that drew Cleveland news television

Trayvon Martin, left, and his killer George Zimmerman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. Cleveland, Ohio-Cleveland area community activists will rally at noon on Monday, July 15 in front of the Justice Center on Lakeside Ave. in downtown Cleveland for justice for Trayvon Martin, whose killer  George Zimmerman is on trial for second degree murder after  stalking and gunning down the unarmed Black teen last year in a  gated community in a Sandford, FL suburb.  (For more information on the ra

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 Kenneth Smith (AKA