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Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime to support Oppressed People's Nation's "Trayvon Martin Skittles Rally" Sat 3 pm in E Cleveland, 14660 Euclid Ave

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Trayvon Martin The Oppressed People's Nation By Kathy Wray Coleman EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Seasoned activist groups such as the Imperial Women, the Carl Stokes Brigade and Black on Black Crime will support the Oppressed People's Nation's "Trayvon Martin Skittles Rally," which is Sat. March 24 at 3 pm at Black on Black Headquarters in East Cleveland at McCall's Hotel, 14660 Euclid Ave. Contact Oppressed People's Nation event spokesperson Judy Martin at 216-990-0679 for more information. Yesterday some 200 community activists, mainly college and high school students, rallied for Martin at Tower City in downtown Cleveland. "Because Trayvon was murdered and his only weapon was a bag of skittles candy, we urge people to bring a bag of skittles to the rally and we will send them to the Sandford Police Department in Florida," said Ernest Smith, the leader of the Oppressed People's Nation, a grassroots group whose members are in their 20s and 30s.

Cleveland activists, college students to protest today, March 23, 4 pm at Tower City over Trayvon Martin murder

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Trayvon Martin NAACP President Ben Jealous The Rev. Al Sharpton By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (Editor's note: The capitalized typing in parts of this article is beyond are technical control and is only occurring as to this controversial article) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activist groups and area high school and college students will gather on Fri., March 23, at 4 pm at Tower City in downtown Cleveland to rally and then march to the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, 1200 Ontario St, to express outrage over the handling of the the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a White neighborhood watchmen in the gated community where his father lives. Anger over the killing of the Black teen as generated nationwide protests with the U.S. Department of Justice launching an investigation around th

President Obama talks energy at The Ohio State University in visit to battleground state of Ohio

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United States President Barack Obama By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS-Oh-With gas prices soaring as a byproduct of a recession brought on by the Bush administration that has reached its peak during this last year of President Barack Obama's four-year term, the president visited the battleground state Ohio yesterday, speaking on energy and conservation to a capacity crowd at The Ohio State University in Columbus, the state's capital. The White House said in a press release before the president's visit on Thurs. that Ohio was chosen as the last pit stop because it is top notch in energy- related research, making it a appropriate to highlight the commitment of the Obama administration to continue to "[promote} responsible oil and gas development, increase auto fuel economy, support renewable energy source

Whitney Houston's death ruled an accidental drowning, coroner says drugs found in body

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Whitney Houston By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) LOS ANGELES, California-Whitney Houston's death in the bathtub of her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last month was the result of an accidental drowning , the Los Angeles coroner said yesterday, with the official cause of death "drowning and the effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use." According to reports of the toxicology report a host of other drugs were found in her body also, namely cocaine, marijuana, the prescription anti-depressant Xanax, Benadryl and Flexeril. The pop singer, 48, who has publicly battled cocaine and alcohol for the past decade in a half, was in town that weekend for a pre-Grammy's Awards party at the hotel thrown by her former music producer and mentor Clive Davis. Also an actress and producer, Houston sold

Ohio Democratic legislators won't fully support Mayor Jackson's education plan, Activist parent hoping to be mayor says its illegal

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (Photograph by The Cleveland Plain Dealer at Cleveland.com www.cleveland.com ) Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) Ohio State Rep Sandra Williams (D-11) Cleveland Schools Parent Donna Walker-Brown 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 ) COLUMBUS-Ohio-State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) and state Rep. Sandra Williams (D-11) stood with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and a few of his Republican state legislative friends during a press conference yesterday at the Statehouse in Columbus on the mayor's controversial Cleveland schools education plan but would not pledge full support for it. Accompanying the mayor was Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon, a proponent of his educational plan. And noticeably absent were practically all the rest of the Cleveland area Democratic legislators, including House Minority Leader Armond

Connie Schultz takes on Rush Limbaugh at journalists' recognition forum by the Akron League of Women Voters, Sen Brown, Plain Dealer editor attend

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League of Women Voters Akron Area Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Connie Schultz Schultz and her husband, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Editor Debra Adams Simmons 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 ) AKRON, Ohio-Debra Adams Simmons, the first Black female editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, was among 22 Akron and Cleveland area journalists recognized at a Women in Journalism Luncheon sponsored by the Akron Press Club and the League of Women Voters Akron Area on Sat. that featured nationally known journalist Connie Schultz as the keynote speaker with her doting husband, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), in attendance. (Editor's note: Read the names of the other 21 recipients of recognition for journalistic excellence at the end of this article). Held at the Fairlawn Country Club in A

Reps Fudge and LaTourette introduce bill to demolish vacant foreclosures after Latasha Jackson, daughter found murdered in vacant Cleveland garage

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U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) Cleveland police Latasha Jackson View full size Cleveland police Chaniya Wynn Cleveland police Thomas Lorde Laura Cowan, an anti-domestic violence advocate, speaks to 19 Action News during a vigil held after the bodies of 19-year-old Latasha Jackson and Jackson's one-year-old daughter Chaniya Wynn were discovered by police in an abandoned garage on Cleveland's majority Black east side. 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, Ohio-U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th Congressional District includes inner city communities of Cleveland and Akron, and 14th Congressional District Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH), a Republican, announced yesterday that they are co-sponsoring a bi-partisan federal foreclosure relief bill for the