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From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Event- The One Year Anniversary Rally And Candlelight Vigil As To The Imperial Avenue Murders Held Oct. 29, 2010: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 announced on Halloween Day in 2009 and found a year ago beginning on Oct. 29, 2009 at the home of serial killer Anthony Sowell on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland, Oh. Sowell was found guilty of the murders, among a host of other charges, on Friday by a jury of his peers. The penalty phase begins Aug 1 and Sowell faces the death penalty. (Use the search box on this blog for herein blog articles on the Imperial Avenue Murders) Also at

State Sen Shirley Smith (D-21), a Cleveland Democrat whose district includes Cleveland Hts. and parts of the City of Cleveland. Smith has said to date that she has not taken a position pro or con on the Cleveland Hts curfew law, one that allows police to arrest children under 18 for eating a sandwich at select restaurants or otherwise patronizing select businesses in the city after 6 pm, and one that has rocked the Cleveland Hts community, drawing a countywide discussion on the constitutional and statutory rights of children, Black children in particular. From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) About 25 activists and other greater Cleveland community members from various groups such as The Imperial Women, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, The Cleveland Chapter of The New Black Panther Party, The Family Connection Center, The Carl Stokes Brigade and Black on Black Crime met with S

19 Action News Reporter and Anchor Paul Joncich State Sen Shirley Smith (D-21), a Cleveland Democrat whose district includes Cleveland Hts. and parts of Cleveland From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Thank you to News Channels 5, 3 and 19 for covering the rally as to the 6 pm curvew law adopted three weeks ago by Cleveland Hts City Council. The rally was on July 18, 2011 in front of Cleveland Hts City Hall with some 25 activists protesting, followed by discussions at the City Council meeting where activists called for council to end the unconstitutional and irresponsible city ordinance that allegedly targets Black children and gives police the discretion as to whom to arrest for eating a sandwich at select restaurants in the city after 6 pm. Community Activist Valerie Robinson, a White resident of Cleveland Hts and a member of The Imperial Women, told Cleveland Hts City Council that the city ordinance is nothing mo

Innocent Black male children under arrest elsewhere by police for protesting, a scenario that might meet home if a one-of-its kind Cleveland Hts, Oh. curfew law that allows police to arrest Black and other children for protesting on issues of public concern without first contacting police remains in effect. The controversial curfew law also allows Cleveland Hts. police to arrest children under 18 for eating at restaurants or otherwise patronizing businesses after 6 p.m. in the Cedar-Lee Business District and the business district that stretches across Coventry Road between Mayfield Rd and Euclid Hts Blvd. State Sen Shirley Smith (D-21), a Cleveland Democrat whose district includes Cleveland Hts. Smith has not yet voiced a position publicly on the controversial curfew law that many community activists oppose but at the request of community activist groups and other community members has agreed to meet to hear their concerns to take them back to Cleveland Hts Mayor Edward Kelley and Clev

Democratic Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy Fuerst . Via state law Fuerst, as presiding judge of the common pleas court in the county, decides whether municipal court judges should be replaced with other sitting judges on criminal, civil and other cases after parties file affidavits of prejudice. Data show that Fuerst often denies valid prejudice affidavits filed by Blacks and others to allegedly cover up malfeasance for her judicial colleagues. And in most if not all instances of when Fuerst denies a prejudice affidavit, she does so before the judge complained about can even respond in writing to the complaint, activity that suggest a preconceived bias against the complaining party. From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF THE CLEVELAND FBI civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov Longtime Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman has filed an A

Cleveland NAACP President and Attorney George L. Forbes, also general counsel for Cleveland's Call and Post Newspaper. Forbes supports a curfew ordinance amendment (an amendment or change in a previously passed law) passed Tuesday by Cleveland Hts City Council that unconstitutionally precludes Black children from shopping centers in certain areas of the city. Community Activist Art McKoy, who failed to win over community activists in requesting that they support the Cleveland Hts City Council ordinance amendment supported by Forbes. Community activists say the ordinance amendment is racist because it targets Black teens in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution Community Activist Sharon Danann, leader of the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, visits a prisoner at the Lucasville Prison that she says has been illegally convicted of crimes following a riot there in 1993. Danann says that the Cleveland Hts city ordinance

Democratic Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock Democratic Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, a Democrat accused of fixing cases Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Democratic Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Democratic Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason State Rep Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF THE CLEVELAND FBI ( cleveland.cv@ic.fbi.gov) Community Activist and Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman will meet with the Civil Rights Division of the Cleveland FBI to file a written complaint of alleged Civil Rights violatio