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The Imperial Women: Fighting for justice for Black and other women, and on other community issues of public concern Serial Murderer Anthony Sowell The home on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland, Oh. of Convicted Serial Murderer Anthony Sowell where the remains of 11 Black women were found beginning on Oct. 29, 2009. From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women, Survivors/Victims Of Tragedy, Black on Black Crime, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Peace In The Hood, the Family Connection Center, the Office of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, the National Organization For Parental Equality, the October 22nd Coalition To Stop Police Brutality, Cleveland City Council Members, Black members of the Ohio State Legislature, the Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, the Northeast Ohio Po

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty, who has resigned from the bench, effective Oct. 31 From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) After winning reelection just last year, and after serving nearly 19 years on the common pleas bench, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty, 60, has resigned, effective Oct. 31. By state law, Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich will appoint his replacement. "Now that he has resigned he has a lot of time to think about all of the unfair and wrong decisions he has made," said longtime Community Activist Ada Averyhart, 77. "I hope he can sleep at night." Once called "a cheap- shot artist" by then judge Sam Zingale, whose seat he took in 1992 following a mudslinging campaign, and infamous for recusing himself from the Anthony Sowell capital murder case after handing the since convicted serial killer's medical and mental h

Cleveland NAACP President and local Cleveland attorney George Forbes, who will not speak up about the blatant harassment and disrespect by corrupt White judicial men like Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock against innocent Black women with bogus misdemeanor charges and harassment without jurisdiction. And Forbes also will not speak out against the malicious prosecutions and other legal system malfeasance against Blacks and others in Cleveland, Shaker Hts, Lyndhurst, Berea and other area municipal courts, and in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas where felonies and other criminal matters are heard. Democratic Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock is under fire by community activists because he chooses the Berea Municipal Court jury pool at his pleasure to allegedly taint at his will, and presides over cases that belong in the Middleburg Hts. Mayor's Court to allegedly target innocent Blacks, area journalists, bloggers, and community activists. And, he outright d

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi Community Activist Art McKoy From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry, who was one of two Black men and three Blacks on the county's 34-member common pleas bench, was sentenced Tue. by U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi of Akron to the maximum sentence of 63-months in prison, causing outcries of racism in greater Cleveland's Black community since former Cuyahoga County Judge Bridget McCafferty, who is White and also convicted of crimes in office, only got 14 months from the judge, though she faced 50 years in prison. "I'm so upset," said Ada Averyhart, 77, a longtime community activist. "He's a Black man and she is a White woman and he has never got in tro

Endorsed for Judge of The Cleveland Municipal Court-Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr (Note: Carr has also been endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Black Cleveland area state legislators, a majority of the Blacks on Cleveland City Council, and a host of others. ) No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lynn McLaughlin-Murray Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes No endorsement for Cleveland Municipal Court judge, but respected-Cleveland Attorney Ed Wade Endorsed for Clerk of The Cleveland Municipal Court-Phil Paverini Jr. No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle Turner Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Joseph Zone Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael John Ryan No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michelle Earley No endorsement-Lyndhurst Municipal Court Ju

Former Cleveland Ward 8 Councilwoman and Former Council Majority Leader Sabra Pierce Scott Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland NAACP President and Former Cleveland City Council President George Forbes Former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White Cleveland Ward 16 Councilman and Former Cleveland City Council President Jay Westbrook Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), a former Cleveland city councilman and former candidate for Cleveland mayor Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry Cleveland Developer Michael Forlani Roz McAllister Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Ward 6 Precinct Committeeman John A. Boyd By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The never-ending Cuyahoga County corruption probe that has ripped the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party and netted to date over 50 guilty pleas or convictions, including two former county judge

Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Judge Alison Nelson Floyd From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women, Govabuse.org, The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The Family Connection Center, The Oppressed People's Nation, People For The Imperial Act, Black on Black Crime and other grassroots and community organizations will rally for a second time on Thurs., Sept. 29, 2011 from 3:00 pm to 3:55 pm at the Jane Edna Hunter Center for Cuyahoga County Family and Children Services, 3955 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland. At issue is what community activists say are actions by the social services agency in stealing Black and poor new born babies in violation of state law to hand to affluent Whites when qualified family and extended family members have petitioned for the children, and in alleged efforts to tear Black and poor families apart to accommodate afflue