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From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND OTHERS: THE CLEVELAND NAACP MEETING IS TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011 AT 6 PM AT NAACP HEADQUARTERS IN CLEVELAND, 2131 STOKES BLVD, TELEPHONE: 216-231-6260. THE IMPERIAL WOMEN, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME AND CARL STOKES BRIGADE MEMBERS, THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE'S NATION, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, THE LUCASVILLE UPRISING FREEDOM NETWORK, THE GREATER CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT NETWORK, CLEVELAND FIST, WORKERS WORLD, REVOLUTION BOOKS, PEOPLE FOR THE IMPERIAL ACT, THE COUNTY JURY.ORG, STOP TARGETING OHIO'S POOR , MEMBERS OF THE NORTHEAST OHIO POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL AVENUE 11 TO ATTEND CLEVELAND NAACP MEETING TO SEEK SUPPORT AS TO THE FOLLOWING: (THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN INVITED PER REQUEST BY CLEVELAND NAACP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STANLEY MILLER, NAACP BYLAWS

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman 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. Cleveland NAACP Executive Director the Rev. Stanley Miller said he expects the Imperial Women and other grassroots factions at its general meeting on Jan 11 at 6 pm at its headquarters, 2131 Stokes Blvd in Cleveland. "We are expecting you and I am working to get you on the agenda," Miller told Kathy Wray Coleman, a local journalist and leader of

Cuyahoga County Council President C. Ellen Conally (D-9) County Council Member Yvonne Conwell (D-7) County Council Member Pernel Jones Jr.(D-8) County Council Member Julian Rogers (D-10) County Council Vice President Sunny Simon (D-11) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) With a 7-4 vote and the help of the other three Blacks C. Ellen Conally (D-9), a retired Cleveland Municipal Court judge, on Monday became the first Black and first woman to lead as president of the new 11-member County Council, the second most powerful job in the county aside from newly elected County Executive Ed FitzGerald. Conally, 65, beat fellow Democrat Chuck Germana (D-4), and won with support from Yvonne Conwell (D-7), Pernel Jones Jr. (D-8),and Julian Rogers (D-10), all Black and, aside from Conally, all of whom are holding elected office for the first time. Each repres

Outgoing Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) Ohio State Representative Barbara Boyd (D-9) Outgoing Cuyahoga County Recorder Lillian Greene Cuyahoga County Executive-Elect Ed FitzGerald Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Cleveland Ward 6 Precinct Committeeman John A. Boyd By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Peter Lawson Jones, a Cuyahoga County commissioner and one of only two Blacks aside from the judges that held county office prior to Issue 6, said goodbye on Friday to his seat on the three-member Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners, and to politics as well. But before departing, the outgoing commissioner took the time to speak on his political tenure and about Issue 6 in an exclusive interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com. “I will focus on developing a father initiative program on

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