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Emilliano Terry By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Three-year-old Emilliano Terry, whose lifeless body was found in a trash bag in an Oakwood Village landfill last month, was laid to rest today after a private funeral at Pernel Jones and Sons Funeral Home in Cleveland  The boy's mother, 20-year-old Camilia Terry, did not attend the funeral and is in the county jail on a $2 million bond. She was indicted  earlier this week by a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury on 10 counts, including aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse.  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473.

Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, led now by corporate execute Hilton Smith, also an associate minister of Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, and interim executive director Arlene Anderson, released a press statement earlier this week condemning the 137 bullets-shooting-deaths of Black unarmed victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell by a group of White Cleveland police officers last week. Cleveland Police Union President Jeffrey Follmer has called the unprecedented shootings "a good shooting," a comment that has outraged both community activists and Cleveland NAACP officials.  "The recent high speed chase that started in downtown Cleveland and ended in a hail of deadly gun fire in East Clev

Malissa Williams, 30 and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both gun down last week by Cleveland police in a Bonnie-and-Clyde- type -shooting replete with 137 shots into the car they occupied after a 25 minute car chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland into East Cleveland. Neither were wanted by the law and no gun nor gun shell casings were found in or near the car at issue. The incident has outraged community activists and the Black community, forcing a  Cleveland City Hall community forum today, Dec 6 at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland , 1161 E. 105th St. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Cleveland City Hall Community Relations Board Director Blaine Griffin will host a community forum on the 137 bullets-Bonnie-and-Clyde-type- shooting last week by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks vict

Grace Waite-Jones Grace Waite -Jones and her son Asante Jones By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- The memorial service for Grace Waite- Jones, a community activist and former reporter for The Call and Post Newspaper who also fought against apartheid in South Africa,  will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 1 pm at Lucas Memorial Chapel, 9010 Garfield Blvd in Garfield Hts, a suburb of Cleveland. Waite- Jones, 65, died suddenly at her home in Cleveland on Nov. 27.  The cause of her death was unknown at press time.  Waite- Jones and her twin sister Gloria were the youngest of 10 children.  In 1967 Waite Jones wed Richard E. Jones. The couple divorced in 1970. Waite- Jones was employed in different capacities including as a Call and Post reporter in the 1970s and 1990s and briefly as its editor in the late

Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Player Jeremy Pargo Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Player Kyrie Irving By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Are the Cavaliers getting better or worst as an NBA basketball team serving the major metropolitan city of Cleveland since temporarily losing Kyrie Irving to an injury last month? Is Irving's replacement, Jeremy Pargo, effectively stepping up to the plate? Before Kyrie Irving's finger fracture that sideline the point guard who was drafted by Cleveland as a first all around pick in 2011, a year after Lebron James left the team and joined The Miami Heat, the Cavs had won two games and lost eight. Since then, in eight games, they are two and six. After Kyrie's injury most observers probably  looked at the Cavs as a definite high lottery team this year and thought they would be almost unteachable.  Let's face it, entering this season Irving was the

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, will layoff a third of its 168 newsroom staff next year Guild President Harlan Spector told union members in an email today.  Spector said that management had notified him that some 58 union positions of the Northeast Ohio Guild Local One are subject to either layoff or an offer at Cleveland.com, the newspaper's online news venue which brings in a fraction of the revenue the print newspaper gets. The Guild includes reporters, columnists, photographers, designers and some editors.  On Sunday Spector and former Guild president and retired Plain Dealer Reporter Richard Peery met with a group of Cleveland area majority Black community activist leaders and some Black elected officials at Lil Africa on Cleveland's

Emilliano Terry By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community activists will protest on Tuesday, Dec 4 at 11:00 am in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building for Cuyahoga County Family and Children Services, 3955 Euclid Ave in Cleveland, over the neglect by the agency and Cuyahoga County officials in the murder case of three-year-old Emilliano Terry, which followed cries for help from the agency by his mother, 20-year-old Camilia Terry. " Ohio  Communities  United will be gathering in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building on Tuesday Dec 4, 2012 at 11 am to protest the failure of this system of both mother and child, Camillia and Emilliano Terry," said Community Activist Mariah Crenshaw in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com. "We ask people to join us and to invite others in the communit