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Dexter Scott King ATLANTA, Georgia- Dexter Scott King, the third child of the late, iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died of pancreatic cancer at his home in California. He was 62 and died just eight days shy of his 63rd birthday and seven days after his father's 95th birthday on Jan 15, a national holiday. King was  just seven-years-old when his father was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Tennessee in 1968 while in town for a protest. He was an American  civil  and  animal rights  activist, attorney, and author.  He is the author of  Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir . His  parents, Dr King and Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, and an older sister, Yolanda King, who died of a heart attack in 2007, preceded him in death.  We ask for your prayers at this time for the entire King family," his sister, the Rev. Bernice King, who is the CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, Geor...

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Roynane CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne have announced awardees of multiple grant programs who will utilize the funding for outreach and engagement, emergency shelters, support services, and prevention tactics. The efforts, they say, are aimed at improving conditions for the local un-housed community in the city and county, a 29 percent Black county that is a Democratic stronghold. In total, seven local agencies will receive more than $3 million for an array of programming designed to support youth, families, and older adults in un-housed situations.  The announcement comes as poor families and the homeless seek shelter following a snow storm Thursday and Friday that brought some 12 inches of snow and freezing temperatures that hit Northeast Ohio with a vengeance. “Tackling an issue as large and systemic as this requires a more concerted effort from us here a...

Staff article: CLEVELAND, Ohio- A diverse group of delegates  representing Ohio's 11th congressional  district for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this summer in Chicago has been selected following a nominating meeting held last week at the Cleveland public main library in downtown Cleveland.  Sources say a recount was taken at last Tuesday's meeting following complaints of irregularities, and the outcome was different with at least one person associated with Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb's top-level administration losing the second time around. Those chosen include elected officials of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, and women's rights advocates. A Democrat and the city's fourth Black mayor, Bibb was in attendance but did not make an application to run for delegate. He did, however, speak before the vote was taken for delegates in support of President Biden's reelection. Some 60 people, including some who do not live in the 11th congressional district, ha...

Britanny Watts Staff article: CLEVELAND, Ohio- A Trumbull County grand jury has declined  to indict a young, Black woman from Warren, Ohio who miscarried at some 22 weeks of pregnancy  and was charged by the city with felony corpse abuse. The controversy grew to include claims from activist women's groups in Ohio that the prosecution was primarily motivated by racial animus.  The grand jury issued a no bill in the case that has drawn national attention and angered women's rights groups in Ohio like Women's March Cleveland, the largest grassroots women's rights activist group in Northeast, Ohio. Prosecutors and police charged Brittanny Watts, 33 and of Warren, Ohio, with felony corpse abuse, accusing her of attempting to plunge the toilet after her miscarriage. A judge ordered a bind-over of the case to felony court and prosecutors submitted the case to a Trumbull, County grand jury, obviously to no avail. The city of Warren is roughly 60 miles southeast of Cleve...

Staff article: investigative article CLEVELANDURANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judges in Cleveland who hear felony cases are improperly assigning themselves to cases before indictments come down against Blacks and then corrupting the cases, a comprehensive investigation by Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com reveals. And the grand jury indictments are often fixed and marked by judicial and prosecutorial impropriety, public records show. These judicial self-assignments violate the Ohio Rules of Superintendence, which require that judges in multi-judge trial courts in Ohio are assigned via random draw. In one case involving a maliciously prosecuted Black defendant the late Judge Joseph Russo, who frequently missed work but could often be seen on Facebook with a drink in his hand, and died suddenly in 2021, assigned himself to a case just days before an indictment came down. This is an indication, say sources, that the judges...