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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Editor's Note: View the video following this article of Cleveland News Channel 5's Reporter Debora Lee's coverage of Friday' gathering of family members and community activists in E. Cleveland to eat soul food and for a press conference on necessary police changes around The Imperial Ave. Murders. Sowell received the death penalty, tentatively scheduled for Oct 2012, earlier that day. Also see below, Channel 3 News Anchor and Reporter Dick Russ' coverage of The Imperial Women's comments on Wednesday after the jury issued a death sentence verdict for Sowell, with television comments also from Assistant County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr and Sowell attorney Rufus Sims. Additionally, this article contains a press statement from U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) who has supported community activists in an unwavering fashion in their push for chang

The Rev Jesse Jackson Sr. U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) U.S Rep. and Congressional Black Caucus Chairperson Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) U.S Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Rainbow Push Coalition leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and members of the Congressional Black Caucus did not disappoint at a town hall forum at Cleveland State University on Monday spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH). The event drew a discussion on the Budget Control Act of 2011, the Republican Tea Party, and an Ohio voter suppression bill that Jackson and the legislators visiting Cleveland said is designed to silence Ohio&#

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Members of The Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, other grassroots factions, and some family members of the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Ave in Cleveland at the hands of serial killer Anthony Sowell will meet Friday, Aug 12, 2011 for an "Anthony Sowell Post Conviction Soul Food Dinner Gathering and Brief News Conference." The event shall begin at 6 pm at the "I Have A Dream Restaurant" in Cleveland at 16402 Euclid Ave with a press conference at 7:30 pm, where the grassroots factions will discuss what has been done and what more needs to be done around the unprecedented tragedy that has rocked the greater Cleveland community. Also, Denise Hunter, the sister of Imperial Ave. Murder victim Amelda Hunter and the cousin of victim Crystal Dozier, will discuss what area police can do to improve safety, an

U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) U.S Rep. and Congressional Black Caucus Chairperson Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) U.S Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) U.S. Rep John Conyers (D-MI) U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-NJ) U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) will host some 120 employers for a job fair at Cleveland State University in the new student center, 2121 Euclid Ave., o

U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Oh) Belinda Prinz, communications director for U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Oh.) U.S. President Barack Obama White House Press Secretary Jay Carney U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Oh) U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.) Larry Bresler of Organize Ohio, who also leads The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Ohio State Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-Cleveland) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) U.S. Rep Marcia L. Fudge (D-Oh), a Warrensville Oh. Democrat whose predominantly Black 11th congressional district includes parts of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, broke ranks with the Obama administration and voted against the president's compromise bill dubbed The Budget Control Act of 2011 that this week garnered a bipartis

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor and Investigative Journalist of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) A former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge who was found guilty earlier this year of 10 counts of lying to the FBI in conjunction with a federal corruption probe of a host of Cuyahoga County officials, including former county commissioner Jimmy Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo, was sentenced on Tue. to 14 months in a federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi of Akron. Federal prosecutors told jurors during Bridget McCafferty's trial in March that she lied to FBI agents when they came snooping at her home on whether she was involved in case fixing for Russo and Dimora, a once popular duo that essentially ran the county's now embattled Democratic Party. Dimora stepped down in 2009 as chairperson of the Cuyahoga County

Destini Bronaugh (rt) and and her mother, Tina Bronaugh Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty 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 befor