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Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher Ohio State Representative Barbara Boyd U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes Retired U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman (Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network) Ohio Democratic Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, who is Jewish, has been branded racist by bloggers on the Plain Dealer News Paper's online forum after yesterday announcing his support of Issue 6, a Cuyahoga County reform measure on the November ballot. The county charter revision proposal is opposed by practically every prominent Black leader from Ohio's largest county, including U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-11, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes and Black Women's Political Action Committee President and Ohio Rep. Barbara Boyd, D-9. If adopted by voters it

Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Cleveland, Oh. journalist Kathy Wray Coleman will get her day in court on a claim that she was maliciously prosecuted in the Shaker Heights, Oh. Municipal Court by the city of Beachwood Oh. and subjected to intentional infliction of emotional distress in retaliation for her community activism and her writings on alleged housing discrimination against Blacks in Shaker Heights in the Call and Post Newspaper, a Cleveland weekly that targets the Black community. The decision, issued last Thursday by a three-judge panel from the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals that consisted of judges Christine McMonagle, Patricia Ann Blackmon and Melody Stewart, reinstated the lawsuit relative to malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims against businesswoman Myrna R. Gill. In addition to Gill the

Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Ohio State Representative Barbara Boyd Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of the Determiner Weekly and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The President of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP said at a recent forum on the controversial county reform measure on the November ballot dubbed Issue 6 that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, a crafter of the proposal, allegedly said that he cannot help the fact that the Black community will not benefit from Issue 6, a charge Mason denies. “When I asked what are you are going to do for Black people and the 50 thousand Black children in Cleveland's schools he [Mason] said I cannot do anything about that,” said Forbes. “Ed Crawford said Black folks have to understand that there are more of us than them,” he added in referencing a member of the group that helped Mason derive Issue

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge has been sued for allegedly fixing a case at the alleged request of a county commissioner, and so has the commissioner himself. And in the thick of things a Cleveland area Black journalist says she is being harassed because of her investigations surrounding a county corruption probe. Both the judge and the commissioner at issue are under investigation in a federal corruption probe along with a host of others and several others have already pleaded guilty to taking bribes with respect to county contracts and other corruption related charges. Neither has been charged relative to the county corruption probe and the commissioner at issue has publicly denied any wrongdoing. Cuyahoga County Common P

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Commentary By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network I hate to see two Black men at each others throats as has occurred this week with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and talented but conservative Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist Phillip Morris. Nonetheless, it stirs up dialogue and increases readership in a country where few people read on a regular basis and even fewer internalize the high points of what is written. It also reminds us that Cleveland's Black children are still at risk educationally where the federal and state governments, unlike Jackson, have thrown them to the waste side. The long overdue debate is over the state of affairs of Cleveland's predominantly Black public school children. Jackson has taken on Morris and others at the PD for criticizing a student scholarship program for kids under his watch to attend Cl

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Dear Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson: This is to request your support relative to a blatant injustice that sends the message that Blacks, journalists and others can be unfairly prosecuted by the predominantly Black City of Cleveland and convicted of alleged crimes such as resisting arrest without the testimony of an accusing or arresting police officer, deputy sheriff or bailiff, in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. As a Black man and former Cleveland City Council President representing the impoverished Ward 5 you know what it means to be disenfranchised and certainly at 62 years old you are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's where Blacks and others fought for equal opportunity and equal justice in this country with the leadership of the likes of African-Americans such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, The Reverend Dr. Martin

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Press Release For All Media Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (Cleveland, Ohio Area News) The Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation and other grassroots organizations will rally on the steps of the Justice Center in Cleveland on Lakeside Ave., Friday, Oct. 23 at 4:00 pm. The protest is to demand that Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough dismiss a resisting arrest verdict that came against local freelance journalist Kathy Wray Coleman without the testimony of the arresting deputy sheriff, who is White, and to demand also that applicable cases against defendants be dismissed as required by law if they are denied their constitutional right under the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment to confront their accuser, particularly arresting police officers, bailiffs and deputy sheriffs. Longtime Community Activis