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Congresswoman Fudge, CBC call for an end to racial profiling following Zimmerman verdict, Cleveland NAACP supports her, National NAACP President Ben Jealous calls for federal Civil Rights criminal charges against Zimmerman

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Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge  (D-11), Cleveland  NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and National NAACP President Ben Jealous   By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black weekly with distributions in Cleveland, Columbus and  Cincinnati   Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com Cleveland, Ohio- In the wake of an acquittal last weekend of night watchman George Zimmerman, who followed, stalked and then gunned down unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin in a Florida suburb last year, and even after police dispatchers directed him to back off, Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman
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Community activists, Clevelanders rally locally for justice for Trayvon Martin, rally led by Community Activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc., activist groups also include the Oppressed People's Nation, Imperial Women, Knowledge, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Underground Railroad, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Revolution Books, ...137 bullets Cleveland police fatal shooting of two unarmed Blacks mentioned by activists at rally

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Led by Community Activist Art McKoy, activists in  in Cleveland rallied on July 15 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in the city's downtown area for Trayvon Martin and said that more rallies around the racially temperamental controversy are being organized. Protesters hold up a giant size poster of slain Black teen Trayvon Martin after a Florida jury on Saturday acquitted night watchman George Zimmerman of all charges,  including second degree murder. The jury verdict has sparked racial unrest across America, highlighting to some, community activists say, that a young Black life means little or nothing.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black  newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist out of the  Cleveland, Oh
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Trayvon Martin rally at Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio at noon on Monday July 15 to go forward after Zimmerman not guilty verdict, local community activists outraged, Rev Al Sharpton upset too and called verdict "a slap in the face"

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Trayvon Martin, left, and his killer George Zimmerman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. Cleveland, Ohio-Cleveland area community activists will rally at noon on Monday, July 15 in front of the Justice Center on Lakeside Ave. in downtown Cleveland for justice for Trayvon Martin, whose killer  George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second degree murder on Saturday after stalking and  gunning down the unarmed Black teen last year in a  gated community in a Sandford, FL suburb.  (For more in
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Press Release: Local community activists to rally for justice for Trayvon Martin at Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio at noon on Monday, July 15, alleged killer of Martin George Zimmerman is on trial, jury in second day of deliberations

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Trayvon Martin, left, and his killer George Zimmerman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. Cleveland, Ohio-Cleveland area community activists will rally at noon on Monday, July 15 in front of the Justice Center on Lakeside Ave. in downtown Cleveland for justice for Trayvon Martin, whose killer  George Zimmerman is on trial for second degree murder after  stalking and gunning down the unarmed Black teen last year in a  gated community in a Sandford, FL suburb.  (For more information on the ra
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Imperial Women Coalition, family members of 137 bullets Cleveland police fatal shooting victims meet with Judge Sara Harper, third vice president of the NAACP, on excessive force, foreclosures, rape and murder of women, inequities in sentencing against Blacks, among other issues, coalition votes for 13 non-Black police officers involved in 137 bullets shooting to get fired, prosecuted, coalition to send letters to FEDS, Mayor Frank Jackson, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald and County Prosecutor Tim McGinty on deadly police shootings, foreclosures, "nigger" name calling, demands that Blacks be hanged by county prosecutor's office employees, etc., coalition to seek meeting with Congresswoman Fudge

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 .  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. CLEVELAND, Ohio- A coalition of community activists group leaders, mainly women, met Wednesday with Judge Sara Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge and third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP. The meeting was  relative to a host of community issues from fatal excessive force by Cleveland police, to abduction, rape and murder of women, foreclosure impropriety by Cu
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Cleveland Urban News.Com update on meeting today, July 10, at 5:30 pm at the Chateau with Judge Sara Harper, third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP and on 150 persons meeting yesterday with community activists, family members of victims of police killings, rape, and murder with Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright

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Cleveland Urban News.Com Update ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ): Community activists leaders or their representatives will meet today, July 10 at 5:30 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Ave, with Judge Sara J. Harper, the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, to develop strategy around the issues below we want addressed by the Cleveland NAACP and other community groups, and elected officials of consequence.  Judge Sara J. Harper The meeting yesterday, July 9, with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright with community activists and family members of victims of rape, murder and police killings went well and drew some 150 people. Speakers at the gathering include Rev. Smith, Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, East Cleveland Council persons Barbara Thomas and Nate Martin, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, activists and victims family members.  The mother of Kenneth Smith (AKA
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Press Release: Imperial Women, activists, victims families of rape, murder, fatal excessive force by Cleveland police to rally July 9, 5 pm, the Chateau, 13124 Euclid Ave.,.. NAACP President Rev Smith to meet with groups there at 5:30 pm, Judge Harper to chair July 10 closed door strategy n-word meeting there with activists, others as to Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office employees who also said to hang Blacks in addition to taking Internet polls on whether it is okay to call Blacks "stupid niggers,"....excessive force, rape, murder other issues to be discussed with NAACP and Judge Harper too, contact number for both meetings is 216-659-0473

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 .  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. CLEVELAND, Ohio-Grassroots groups, including Imperial Women, the Fairfax Business Association, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Ohio Family Rights, Black on Black Crime and the Oppressed People's nation, will rally at 5 pm on July 9, 2013 at the Chateau at 13124 Euclid Ave. along with activists and families members of victims of fatal excessive force by Cleveland police and the families of wo
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