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International Boxing Promoter and Call and Post Newspaper Publisher Don King and his wife Henrietta From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly. Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog(www.determinerwwekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The wife of internationally known boxing promoter Don King, also publisher of the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Oh., has died. Henrietta King, 87, died late Thursday after complications from cancer and other ailments, a family spokesperson told reporters. King, 79, was with his wife of more than 50 years at a hospice center in South Florida that she was moved to on Tuesday when she passed. In addition to King, Henrietta King is survived by their three children Eric 57, Carl 52, and Debbie, 47. "Our condolences to the King family," said Kathy Wray Coleman, editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com. Coleman, who did freelance writing for the Call and Post for 14 years be

Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Attorney and Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network An order by Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough for an educated Black banker to apologize to a White Cleveland police officer as part of a plea deal or face trial in a criminal case that the Cleveland NAACP said has racial undertones has the leaders of the Civil Rights organization angry and some Black members of Cleveland City Council fighting with the city's police union. And Keough went further saying the claims of racism by the NAACP and Black leaders were bogus and indicative of routine race card tactics in Cleveland. "This city makes everything a racial incident," said Keough on Monday to the parties and their attorneys af

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com Bowing to pressure, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough has reopened a closed plea deal and ordered a Black banker represented in the criminal proceedings before her by the law offices of Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes to apologize to the arresting police officer or face trial. (go to www.Cleveland.com. to read Plain Dealer Reporter Robert Smith's article on the matter and blog comments). Jason Ruiz, 27, must appear before Keough today to apologize to a White Cleveland police officer that he and his friends said mistreated him after they, unlike their White counterparts, where kicked out of a West Sixth St. bar at closing. Ruiz attorney Helen Forbes, a daughter of Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, also general c

Pulitizer Nominated Plain Dealer Columnist Regina Brett Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Attorney and Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (An Editorial by Editor and Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman) Pulitzer nominated Plain Dealer Columnist Regina Brett, in her column dated Dec. 2 , apologizes to a White male Cleveland Police officer whom she chastised in a previous column following alleged claims by the Cleveland NAACP and a few Cleveland City councilmen that he is allegedly racist following an altercation with a group of educated Black men that were patronizing a bar in Cleveland's Warehouse District (Note: go to www.cleveland.com to read the column, and all deny that the officer, himself, was called racist). Before I attempt a scholarly approach to

The late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland during Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com remembers the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio's first Black Congresswoman who died in August of 2008 shortly before Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America. Below is the last major interview with Tubbs Jones by Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman that was featured in the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black Press. "I remember calling the Congresswoman right after then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America," said Coleman. "And at that time tensions were still u

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) WASHINGTON, DC –Today, Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (DOH-11) delivered statements on the House floor in support of HR 4783, which the House passed. The proposed legislation, dubbed "the Pigford Bill," would help implement a $1.15 billion settlement with black farmers who were victims of discrimination by US Department of Agriculture officials, in a case known as Pigford II. It also addresses a $3.4 billion settlement of another case, Cobell vs. Salazar, with American Indians who alleged mismanagement of trust accounts against the U S Department of Interior. Since it previously passed the Senate, and cleared the House today, the bill now heads to President Obama for his signature to make it law, which is likely since his administration had pushed for the legislation Eleven years ago tens of thousands of black farmers settled a landmark court case, which addressed years and years of discrimination by the Department of Agriculture. "Finally,

From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and theKathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com Attention to all readers: The new URL to put in the address bar to find the blog online is theKathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, a change from the stolen domain name of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network.Com. Thank you for your patience. Event- The One Year Anniversary Rally And Candlelight Vigil As To The Imperial Avenue Murders:The below 11 videos were produced and posted by Patricia Rowell and Ernest Smith of the Oppressed People's Nation. The videos, which are not inclusive of the entire event, represent rally and vigil participants of grassroots activists, political officials, other community members, and family members of the 11 Black women whose remains were found a year ago on Oct. 29, 2009 at the home of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, who is awaiting trial on numerous charges including kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder.(Use the search box on this b