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Cleveland NAACP, community activists to take testimony on foreclosures, abandoned homes on Monday, March 31, 2014, 5 pm, 3500 Loraine Avenue in Cleveland in basement of Fifth Third Bank Building, representatives of Congresswoman Fudge also to attend

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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 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,
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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Community activists, family members of Davida Burns, whose murdered body was found at a Cleveland house fire, to hold vigil tonight, November 20, 2013, 7:30 pm, 3970 East 121st Street in Cleveland, community activists call for more police, detectives on the streets, other resources to address violence against greater Cleveland women

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Davida Burns CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and family members of Davida Burns, 42, whose murdered body was found in a home on Cleveland's east side after a 911 call brought firefighters there late last week, will hold a vigil tonight, Nov 22, 2013, at 7:30 pm, at 3970 East 121st Street in Cleveland. (Contacts are Art McKoy at 216-253-4070, Judy Martin at 216-990-0679, and Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-659-0473) The Cuyahoga County coroner has determined her death a homicide and said she died of blunt force injuries to the head and brain. Cleveland police responded to a fire in the upstairs bedroom at the home where tonight's  vigil will be held and said they found Burn's body in the basement. Her assailant is still at large and police have no suspects to date. She leaves behind seven children, some of them grown.  "There is an epidemic of rape and murder of women in Cleveland and we call for additional resources and more police and detectives on the stree
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Cleveland serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro found dead in prison cell, Imperial Women activist group say they "hope he rots in hell," Imperial Women was founded around the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer Anthony Sowell

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Ariel Castro, 53,  at sentencing on August 1, 2013 at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas at the Justice Center in in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Next to him is one of Castro's court appointed attorney's, though demolition  crews found $22,000 when his home on the city's west side  was demolished about a week after sentencing. Castro was found dead in his prison cell yesterday evening at about  9:20 pm  .       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 "While we would not condone any malfeasance around Mr. Castro's death, and to date that does not seem to be the case,  and while we certainly believe that life is worth living, we hope he rots in hell," ..... Cleveland area community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial W
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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
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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed to hand out pepper spray tonight, August 7, for Black, other women after self defense training class, activity comes on heels of the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, the 11 Black women murdred by serial killer Anthony Sowell on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, and 3 Black women murdered in East Cleveland at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed 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 - In the wake of heightened violence against women in greater Cleveland from the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, to the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer Anthony Sowell, to the three Black women whose bodies were found in East Cleveland wrapped in garbage bags last month allegedly at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison, graduates  from Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed and the
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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
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Uppercut RTA bus driver victim Shidea Lane to make plea tomorrow in Shaker Hts Municipal Court on disorderly conduct charge, fired RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched the young Black woman and threw her from an RTA bus last year, was found guilty of assaulting Lane, Imperial Women representative to attend hearing, Imperial Women object to outrageous violence against women and call for not guilty finding or probation without criminal record for Lane, 25

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Shidea N. Lane  Artis Hughes 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 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Shidea N. Lane, the young Black woman who made national news last year for getting uppercut, choked, and thrown from a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus by since fired bus driver Artis Hughes, will plead no contest tomorrow to misdemeanor disorderly conduct before Shaker Hts Municipal Court Judge K. J Montgomery, her lawyer Attorney Dale Friedland told Cleveland Urban News.Com Monday afternoon.  "Shidea will plead no contest and we hope the judge will find her not guilty," said Friedland, who added that Montgomery and Beachwood Prosecutor Thomas Greve had rejected his request for probation before judgment without a cri
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