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Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) MEMBERS AND/OR ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CARL STOKES BRIGADE, THE CLEVELAND CHAPTER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME INC., THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE'S NATION, THE GREATER CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT NETWORK The DIVINE VICTORY MGO November 10, 2009 Cleveland City Hall 601 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Re: Demands To Be Presented At Rally Of Today Relative To Black and Other Women Subject To Undue Violence And Other Mistreatment Including The Black Women Murdered On Imperial Avenue,Still Missing Women, And The Malicious Prosecution Of Black Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Dear Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland City Council Members: This is an open letter that includes demands from the aforementioned to you as leaders in the midst of a community crisis where 11 Black women were viciously murdered, some strangled unmercifully, in and around the hous

U.S. President Barack Obama U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-8) Posted Sunday, November 8, 2009 (National News) By Kathy Wray Coleman (Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network) The first Black president of the United States of America made history late last night as the House adopted his health care reform initiative, passing the bill by a narrow margin with only one Republican supporting it and 39 Democrats voting in opposition. “The yeas are 220 and the nays are 215,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-8), a California Democrat and the first woman to lead the House. President Barack Obama, elected last year as the first African- American to lead the country, made a last minute pitch to Congress in support of the measure. “I urge members of Congress to answer the call of history and vote yes to health issue reform,” he said. Health care reform has been Obama's baby and he made that clear when he ca

U.S. President Barack Obama U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Posted Thursday, November 5, 2009 (National News) By Kathy Wray Coleman (Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network) President Barack Obama has announced progress in the national economy and job growth that signals a reprieve from the shortfall left by the Bush administration including 650,000 jobs, 350,000 of which are in the educational arena, according Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and White House Senior Economic Advisor Jarad Bernstein. And Ohioans and the Black community can expect to benefit from those jobs and other assistance that will come as a by product of the American Recovery and Investment Act Bernstein told The Determiner Weekly in a recent interview. “The Black community will benefit due to nutritional assistance and subsidies for health care for job coverage,” said Berstein in response to a question from The Determiner Weekly as to how

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Posted Tuesday, November 3, 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 Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason flexed his muscle election night Tuesday as the county reform measure dubbed Issue 6 that he pushed to the distraction of Black leaders and Cleveland, Ohio's Black press sailed to victory in a landslide fashion. So did Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who trounced former Cleveland City Council member Bill Patmon to win a second term as mayor of the predominantly Black city with 78 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. The state wide initiative that would bring casino gambling to horse racing facilities to major Ohio cities, including Cleveland, passed by a narrow margin. Jackson said that in his next four years as mayor he

Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 (National and Cleveland Ohio Area News) Cleveland, Oh journalist Kathy Wray Coleman was arrested by Middleburg Heights, Oh. police last night in what she says is retaliation for an upcoming protest against Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, who has harassed the journalist allegedly because of her writings in Cleveland's Call and Post Newspaper, a weekly that targets the Black community, and investigations around a federal corruption probe involving Cuyahoga County public officials. Cuyahoga County is the largest in Ohio and includes the predominantly Black city of Cleveland. Middleburg Heights is an overwhelmingly White suburb of Cleveland that Blacks fear in terms of illegal arrests and racial intimidation. According to Coleman, three police cars and numerous police swarmed her car at 9 pm last night without either probable cause or reasonable articulable suspicion and approached her att

Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 (Regional and Local Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By The Endorsement Committee of The Determiner Weekly and Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Determiner Weekly has endorsed Issue 5 and rejected county reform Issue 6, following the lead of Black leaders of Cuyahoga County including U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Ohio Rep. Barbara Boyd (D-9), and NAACP President George Forbes. The endorsements came at a meeting on Saturday with a panel of affiliates of the new online Black magazine such as editor Kathy Wray Coleman, new writer and columnist Genevieve Mitchell, Adilifu Sanyiaka, and William Clarence Marshall, an esteemed singer out of the Cleveland, Oh. area. The group also endorsed incumbent Cleveland, Oh. Mayor Frank Jackson over Bill Patmon, a former Cleveland City Council member. “The

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 (White House 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 Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network have made the cut for President Obama's media list, which gives access to top level officials at the White House via telephone press conferences, including White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. . “We look forward to working with America's first African-American President and his media staff and others to provide worthy news across the Internet and elsewhere particularly to Ohioans since Ohio is a pivotal state where no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio,” said Coleman, editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network. During last year's Democratic Prima