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From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists disenchanted with Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, including The Imperial Women, family members of the Imperial Ave. murder victims, People for the Imperial Act, The Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Ohio Family Rights, The National Association for Parental Equality, The Committee to Bring Home Jamela and Jamyla and members of various other groups such as The Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Inc and The Cleveland Chapter of the News Black Panther Party, have postponed the protest against Forbes and Cleveland NAACP officials scheduled for Tues., March 13 at 5 pm at company headquarters, 2131 Stokes Blvd. in Cleveland. The activist groups decided yesterday that they shall seek a meeting first with interim Cleveland NAACP Ex

Joaquin Hicks Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Jose Villaneueva Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Edele Passalacqua Jeremy Pechanec Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Jory Aebly By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio-A Black man that was serving 61 years in prison for allegedly setting up a robbery that led a Black teen to commit an execution style murder of a White male Cleveland Clinic employee and the wounding of another outside of a downtown Cleveland night club in Feb. 2009 is a free man after a state appellate court reversed his convictions and remanded the case for a retrial and he accepted Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason's offer of time served. Joaquin Hicks, now 31, had been charged in Sept 2009

C levand Criminal Defense Attorney Edward Wade, who filed petitions last week to run as an Independent for Cuyahoga County prosecutor against Tim McGinty, who won the Democratic primary on Tues. in a five way race. CLEVELAND, Ohio-Editorial by Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Edward Wade (pictured) has given the Black community another shot at keeping former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Tim McGinty from taking office as county prosecutor to further promote his racist, sexist and unjust policies. He is running as an Independent candidate against McGinty, who won a five way Democratic primary on Tues. No Republican sought the office. (Editor's Note: Wade has turned in petition signatures to run to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and absent a dearth of signatures, his name

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) (Editors Note: The results of Tuesday's Cuyahoga County Democratic primary for county prosecutor are addressed in a separate article below this one that is also dated March 7, 2012). CLEVELAND, Ohio-Tuesday's Cuyahoga County Democratic primary brought mostly predictable results, political pundits said. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland lost to Toledo Democrat Marcy Kaptur in the new 9th Congressional District, 11th Congressional District Rep. Marcia L. Fudge won reelection to a third term by a comfortable margin, a Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court judge was ousted while another retained her seat, and a former Cuyahoga County commissioner upset a crowded field to compete against a Republican in Nov. for one of two open of seats on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals , among other judicial races. (Editors Not

Tim McGinty, who won Tuesday's Democratic primary for Cuyahoga County prosecutor, greets supporters at a recent fundraiser for his candidacy . Stephanie Hall, the only Black and woman in the race for Cuyahoga County prosecutor who out did three men, two with greater name recognition than she before the celebrated contest for the county's most powerful office Robert Triozzi, a former law director under Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who was endorsed by the mayor and came in fourth in the race for Cuyahoga County prosecutor. He allegedly got punched in the face at a poll location on Tues. James McDonnell came in fifth place for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's seat in spite of television commercials and endorsements from some suburban mayors and municipal prosecutors Subodh Chandra, a candidate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor pushed by a cadre of community activists and U.S. Rep. Marcia L, Fudge (D-OH), made a third place finish Edward Wade, a Cleveland criminal