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Imperial Women Coalition, community activists to rally against violence against women to mark the first anniversary of the rescue of Ariel Castro victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight at 5 pm at 2207 Seymour Avenue in Cleveland on May 6, 2014

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From left, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists will hold a Stop Violence Against Women Rally and Vigil at 5 pm on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 2207 Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side to mark the first year anniversary of the day a year ago that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from the home of serial rapist and  kidnapper  Ariel Castro following a decade of captivity. The rally and vigil will be held in front of where Castro's since demolished Seymour Avenue home once stood. For more information contact the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473. "This is a celebrated case of unprecedented cruelty and  violence   and we intend to address this issue and other issues on violence  against   women and girls  in greater Cleveland, statewide and nationally in a  wholehearted  fashion," said Imperial Women Coalition Leader Kathy Wray Coleman. "And we again  praise  the Ariel Castro vi
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World's largest outdoor chandelier is lighted at Cleveland cultural arts Playhouse Square extravaganza, some 20,000 people attend, community activists, led by Art McKoy, protest at event over the 137 shots fatal shooting by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, activists want police indicted on criminal charges

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The chandelier at the Playhouse Square performing arts center in Cleveland, Ohio, the world's largest outdoor chandelier that was lit-up on Friday, May 2, 2014 in downtown Cleveland to highlight a $16 million cultural arts restoration project in the majority Black major American city.  The chandelier boast 4,200 crystals and stands 48 ft tall, designers said.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-n-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Playhouse Square theater venue in downtown Cleveland lit up Friday night as part of the 'Dazzle the District' extravaganza, an event that drew over 20,000 people to the center of the city at 14th and Euclid Avenu
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Updated: Fired former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid, a candidate for county executive, stole foreclosed homes for JPMorgan Chase Bank, other banks, mortgage companies with help from common pleas judges such as judges Carolyn Friedland and John O'Donnell, former county prosecutor Bill Mason overlooked foreclosure theft for his now law firm of Bricker and Eckler, who represents JPMorgan Chase Bank, other banks, mortgage companies: Community activists want theft evidence presented to county grand jury for possible criminal indictments, activists also call for county inspector general Nailah Byrd to investigate, National Mortgage Settlement gave homeowners who lost their homes small part of $26 billion settlement for foreclosure impropriety by JPMorgan Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, others, NAACP took testimony around the alleged foreclosure fraud in Cuyahoga County, Reid is a Democrat for Cuyahgoga County executive pushing Chase Bank and Republicans and has said that Blacks do not need early voting

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Fired former Cuyahoga County sheriff Bob Reid By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-A four-year Cleveland Urban News.Com comprehensive investigation reveals that fired former Cuyahoga County sheriff Bob Reid, a candidate for the Democratic primary for county executive this year, stole foreclosed homes when he was sheriff by reducing the appraisal values in violation of state law and selling them back, through sheriffs sales, to mortgage companies under subsidiary names, and to banks and a host of others at a fraction of the value. The documented theft, the investigation s
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Suspended Bedford court pimp judge Harry Jacob, who allegedly ran a prostitution ring out of the court, is still listed on court website as an upstanding judge on Ohio Supreme Court committees, law director resigns, Jacob trolled the web for prostitutes at work, charges say, fixed cases, Bedford Clerk Tom Day, Judge Brian Melling are still on the job doing in Blacks, others, data show, Judge Jacob, Melling and Tom Day denied indigent Blacks counsel, Bedford Court hears cases from 14 locations now at risk

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Pimp former Judge Harry Jacob, of the Bedford Municipal Court By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) BREAKING NEWS: JUDGES AND LAWYERS BEHAVING BADLY, AN  EPIDEMIC (A CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM ONGOING  COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION) Bedford, Ohio- In spite of a suspension of disqualification from the bench last year by the Ohio Supreme Court of former Bedford Municipal Court Judge Harry Jacob due to a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indictment on charges of  bribery, tampering with evidence and a host of other felonies , and in spite of other embarrassing  charges, including that he boldly pimped Black and other women thro
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The Cavaliers NBA season ends without a playoff's' spot and not as Coach Brown expected, so what's next? Loss to Atlanta Hawks shuts Cleveland out of the playoffs

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Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Mike Brown By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-Now that the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2013-2014 season has come to an end and once again with them out of the playoffs everyone, including the players and Cavalier management, must be wondering where do we go from here? Before the season began then new head Coach Mike Brown said on a number of occasions that he felt his team would be in the playoffs this year. But after concluding the season, Brown admitted that he under estimated how much his team needed to grow to be a playoff team. As he made that statement Brown could have been thinking ab
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Remembering our African culture and still fighting for equal educational and other opportunities for African and African-American children

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An anthropologist thought he would test these  African children  (See picture above). He placed a bowl of fruit underneath a tree and told them that the first one to reach the tree could have the fruit. When he told the children to run, they all took each others' hands and ran together. They all enjoyed the fruit together. This is the African concept of Ubuntu. It is also why Africa is preyed upon b y the vultures untamed and let loose by other cultures, some say.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )
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Ohio Supreme Court rules that former Akron cop and murderer Douglas Prade can remain free while it decides whether to hear a reversal by a state appellate court of a trial court ruling that set him free from a life sentence for murdering ex wife Dr. Margo Prade, Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that she will continue the fight for justice for Margo Prade, says claims by defense lawyers that Prade is innocent are "meaningless"

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Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Douglas Prade AKRON, Ohio- The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Akron police capt. Douglas Prade can remain free until it decides whether it will hear his appeal of a 9th  District Court of Appeals decision issued last month that reversed a Summit County trial court ruling that in 2013 freed him from prison as he served 15 years of a life sentence for the murder of ex-wife Margo Prade, a popular Akron medical doctor.   Dr. Margo Prade Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh, who fought  against  the high co
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