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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson hires Black police chief, demotes Safety Director Martin Flask, promotes Police Chief Michael McGrath to safety director, shake-up follows calls by community activists for new law enforcement leadership team as to the murders of 11 Black women by serial killer Anthony Sowell on Imperial Avenue, the gunning down, with a hail of 137 bullets, of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell by 13 White Cleveland police officers, Imperial Women, other activists had picketed mayor's home around Imperial Avenue murders, no racial diversity among memebrs of the mayor's law enforcement leadership team, and police negligence

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Newly Appointed Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams 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. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Activists Group, raises her hand and chants along with some 45 other activists during a 2009 rally she led outside the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. The protest was in response to what activists said was police negligence and apathy relative to the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue on the city's east side. The remains of the women were uncovered beginning in October 2009 and since convicted serial killer Anthony S

Imperial Women endorse Community Activist Donna Walker- Brown for Cleveland Ward 10 city council race in September 10 primary, Walker-Brown comments, is summoned to jury duty in Cleveland Municipal Court on primary election day tomorrow, Walker-Brown says her jury duty beginning tomorrow on the day of the primary is politically motivated, community activists want criminal investigation on whether assignment to jury duty is politically motivated, activists support Walker-Brown for Ward 10 city council primary race

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Community Activist Donna M. Walker- Brown, a candidate for the Cleveand Ward 10 city council seat 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 QUOTE  FROM BELOW ARTICLE: " We endorse Donna M. Walker- Brown for Cleveland Ward 10 city council seat for the non-partisan September 10 primary because she has been in the trenches on women's issues impacting greater Clevelanders as well as other matters of public concern such as unfairness by the legal system and educational inequities affecting Black, poor and other Cleveland schools students," said Imperial Women President Kathy Wray Coleman. " We believe that Ms. Walker-Brown has the credentials, courage, integrity and community commitment to lead in Ward 10 and we call for a complete criminal investigation o

Press Release: Imperial Women, Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime members, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, other community activists groups, clergy, rape and murder victims families to meet and hold press conference at Chateau on Thursday, August 22, 4:45 pm, to address Prosecutor McGinty, dismissal of Sowell victims lawsuit claims, inequities against Black female victims of crime and their families, Cleveland Council Safety Committee Chair Kevin Conwell, handpicking of judges by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor

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From the Metro Desk of 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 CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Imperial Women, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Vice President Al Porter, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, other activists groups and family members of Blacks murdered and raped will  hold  a public meeting and press conference on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:45 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Avenue, to legally deal with Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, inequities against the Black community on violence against women, and whether Black elected officials and other leaders have done all they can to help. For more information contact Imperial Women at 216-659-0473. Speakers include c

Bishop Ward, greater Cleveland Black clergy call County Prosecutor Tim McGinty racist for not seeking charges against 13 White Cleveland cops that gunned down 2 unarmed Blacks with 137 bullets, remark that McGinty is racist is made at August 2 rally for help from Obama, Governor Kasich on epidemic of violence against greater Cleveland women, community activists, Black clergy say McGinty is an anti-Black police prosecutor

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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

CNN covers 400 persons Imperial Women, Oppressed People's Nation violence against women rally, activists call on Obama to bring in National Guard to find missing women, State Senator Turner criticizes Governor Kasich at rally, family members of victims of serial killer, Black elected officials attend, in unrelated matter Arial Castro agrees to plea deal of life in prison for raping and kidnapping Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight

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CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com    According to a news article by Cleveland Fox 8 News Reporter Kevin Freeman, who covered the rally, hundreds  attended the  stop the violence rally held  on July 24, 2013  and organized by Imperial Women and the Oppressed People's Nation  in the wake of 3 dead bodies uncovered last week in East Cleveland, Ohio of Black women wrapped in plastic bags.  Photo by Cleveland FOX 8 news.       CLEVELAND, Ohio- A  stop the violence against women rally that drew nearly 400 people  on July 24 near the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland in the area where the decomposed bodies of 3 Black women were found wrapped in plastic bags last week at va

Imperial Women Coalition, family members of 137 bullets Cleveland police fatal shooting victims meet with Judge Sara Harper, third vice president of the NAACP, on excessive force, foreclosures, rape and murder of women, inequities in sentencing against Blacks, among other issues, coalition votes for 13 non-Black police officers involved in 137 bullets shooting to get fired, prosecuted, coalition to send letters to FEDS, Mayor Frank Jackson, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald and County Prosecutor Tim McGinty on deadly police shootings, foreclosures, "nigger" name calling, demands that Blacks be hanged by county prosecutor's office employees, etc., coalition to seek meeting with Congresswoman Fudge

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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.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 .  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- A coalition of community activists group leaders, mainly women, met Wednesday with Judge Sara Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge and third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP. The meeting was  relative to a host of community issues from fatal excessive force by Cleveland police, to abduction, rape and murder of women, foreclosure impropriety by Cu

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 Kenneth Smith (AKA