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Attorney and Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Officers and executive committee members of the Cleveland branch NAACP have agreed to meet with members of the Imperial Women and leaders of a host of other grassroots factions for a discussion around the Imperial Avenue Murders and other matters impacting greater Cleveland's Black and other communities. Among members of the Imperial Women that will attend are family members of 11 Black women whose remains were uncovered a year ago on Imperial Avenue In Cleveland's impoverished Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Contacts from the grassroots venues are Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114, Don Bryant at 440-623-0492, Judy Martin at 216-990-0679, Tina Bronaugh at 216-253-6484, Marva Patterson at 216-334-7013 and Ada Averyhart at 216-645-0804. "We are excited about meet

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11), who represents parts of the City of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, issued the following press statement as to her vote against the tax compromise that passed the House of Representatives and had previously passed the Senate at the urging of President Barack Obama: WASHINGTON, DC-- Congresswoman Fudge voted against H.R. 4853, which costs over $800 billion, reduces funding for social security, and extends tax cuts for the wealthy. The measure, which the House passed by a vote of 277 to 148 late Thursday night, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday and now goes to President Obama for his signature into law. Congresswoman Fudge released the following statement after passage. The compromise does not reduce the national debt. It piles nearly $1 t

Joaquin Hicks Jeremy Pechanec Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Article by Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul, on probation for six months for unethical charges sanctioned by the Ohio Supreme Court in Oct. of this year, has set a hearing for Monday to decide if Joaquin Hicks, now serving 61 years to life in prison as the alleged ring leader that planned a robbery that led to the murder and attempted murder of two Cleveland Clinic employees in a plaza across from a Cleveland night club, should get a new trial. At trial earlier this year Hick's attorneys said he was not even at Scorcher's nightclub on 12th St. and Chester Ave that night and family members took the stand and testified that he was at an aunt's house on Cleveland's East Side with relatives and sl

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Call and Post Newspaper, the Black press that serves Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Oh., has attacked Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough in an editorial in this week's edition, which hit the stands Wed. At issue is Keough's slap in the face to the newspaper and the client of Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post General Counsel George Forbes where the controversial judge ordered Jason Ruiz, 27, to apologize to Cleveland police officer Anthony Sauto, who is White. She did so even though prosecutor

Newly Appointed Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Ohio Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland made history earlier this week in naming Yvette McGee Brown as the first African American woman to the Ohio Supreme Court. Brown, 50, was the governor's Lt. Gov. running mate in this year's failed election to Gov-Elect John Kasich. While some expected the governor to name Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, who also lost along with the entire Democratic ticket for statewide offices, he selected McGee Brown of Columbus, Oh, a former Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge and founding president for the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital. "I have no doubt that Yvette will provide a wise and compassionate voice for the most vulnerable to our highest court," S

International Boxing Promoter and Call and Post Newspaper Publisher Don King and his wife Henrietta King Renowned Boxing Promoter Don King From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly. Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog(www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Memorial services for Henrietta King, 87, wife of international boxing promoter and Call and Post Newspaper Publisher Don King, are as follows: Services: Saturday, December 11 10 a.m. - Family Hour and Viewing 11 a.m. – Funeral Service Olivet Institutional Baptist Church 8712 Quincy Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44128 Arrangements by: E. F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home 25900 Emery Road Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44128 (216) 831-7906 Henrietta King 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 addit

Serial killing suspect Anthony Sowell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Changed from the stolen domain name of www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblogandmedianetwork.com that godaddy compromised in an attempt to silence free speech Lawsuits filed Wednesday in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas by the families of five of the 11 victims whose remains were uncovered last year at the home of serial killing suspect Anthony Sowell may bring to light the reason Sowell was released from custody in 2008 when an attempted rape complaint by Gladys Wade was deemed "not credible. She said that Sowell tried to rape her but she got away, and that Sowell was let go even though polioce said the walls of his home were lined with blood and it "smelled of death." "Its been an entire year and our legal system is still the same, ignoring citizens com