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137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Malissa Williams 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Timothy Ray  Russell Newly Elected Cleveland Chapter NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Family members and attorneys of alleged excessive force Cleveland police deadly shooting victims and community activists attended the Cleveland NAACP meeting Monday night to seek support from the local chapter of the nation's most prominent Civil Rights organization.  Chapter president the Rev Hilton Smith led the meeting and was gracious and supportive, community activists said after the gathering. More that 50 community activists were there. Speakers include Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Attorney Terry Gilbert, the family of slain Parma father o

People's World depends on your donation , not corporate cash, to keep building an online community of well-informed - and informative - activists. It's easy, fast and fun.  Donate today. The economy: Happy days are here again! For whom? By Thomas Riggins Last week the stock market made a great leap forward. "Dow Leaps to Record" the Wall Street Journal blazons on its front page. Restaurant workers make music for money (with video) Special to  peoplesworld.org NEW YORK - What do New York City restaurant workers want? More MONEY. That's what workers in some of NYC's top restaurants were saying when they lip-synced and danced to Barrett Strong's Motown classic "Money (That's What I Want"). Chicago unions go to bat for immigration reform By John Wojcik CHICAGO - Chicago's labor movement turned out in force yesterday to declare support for immediate

Newly Elected Cleveland Chapter NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of 137 bullets Cleveland police shooting  victim Timothy Ray Russell. Gilbert will headline a community forum at the regular meeting of the Cleveland  Chapter NAACP on Monday March 11 at 7 pm at The University Circle United Methodist Church in Cleveland, 1919 E. 107th St. at Chester Ave.  137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Malissa Williams 137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Timothy Ray  Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Family members and attorneys of alleged excessive force Cleveland police deadly shooting victims and community activists will attend the Cleveland NAACP meeting tonight, Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7 p

Convicted Serial Killer Anthony Sowell, also known  as The Cleveland Strangler. Sowell, 52, sits on death row after convictions in 2011 on 82 of 83 counts including aggravated murder of 11 Black women at his home on Imperial Ave. on Cleveland's majority Black east side. His convictions are on appeal before the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. Above, United States President Barack Obama gives the thumbs up after signing the expanded Violence Against Women Act on Thursday. Below that, the president talks public policy changes for the betterment of the American people.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C - President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the revitalized Violence Against Women Act into law, renewing a measure that had lapsed last year due to partisan infighting in Congress.  He was

Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed 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.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving early yesterday morning, nearly three weeks after he publicly supported embattled Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath in spite of the demand for the chief's resignation  last month by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, the union for the police rank and file.  McGrath is under fire relative to the fatal shooting late last year by a group of White Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell,  both gunned down and shot at 137 times following a police chase that began in downtown Cleveland and led police into the neighboring predominantly Black city of East Cleveland. Following a community forum

U.S. House of Representatives  Republican Speaker John Boehner for Ohio Ohio  Republican Governor John Kasich                Ohio Democratic Congresspersons from left, Reps. Marcia L. Fudge, Joyce Beatty and Tim Ryan WASHINGTON, D.C.-Protesters angry over a breakdown in discussions between President Obama and Democratic and Republican Congressional Leaders that resulted in a presidential sequester order on Friday for massive across-the-board- spending cuts  picketed the Capital Hill office of Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio three days before the debacle and allegedly attacked a staffer, a Capital Hill source told Cleveland Urban News.Com Friday evening. “On Tuesday morning 50 protesters were banging on the Capital Hill office door of Rep. Boehner demanding the he stop what was about to become a sequester, and when one of his female staffers stepped in the hallway to try to calm the crowd she was pushed and shoved and another staffer had to rescue

                                                                                                      United States President Barack Obama Congressional Black Caucus Chairperson Representative Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Democratic congressperson for Ohio  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.cleve landurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Barack Obama on Friday called Republican congressional leaders "dumb, arbitrary" Republicans after negotiations to stop automatic spending cuts, also dubbed a sequester, fail through. And America's first Black president also signed the sequester order later that day that calls for massive spending cuts and could result in a government shut down, according to a White House press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com.  "It dumb and it's gonna hurt," said Obama. Republicans shot