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By  Matthew Cella  and  Deborah Simmons  - The Washington Times -  Updated:  9:24 p.m. on Sunday, November 23, 2014 Former D.C. Mayor  Marion Barry , who rose from the sharecroppers’ shacks of Itta Bena, Mississippi, to the executive suite of the District’s City Hall and overcame an embarrassing public drug arrest while in office to return as D.C. mayor and council member, died early Sunday. He was 78.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-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 in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Four people, two adult men and two adult women, were shot and killed execution -style by a masked executioner and a nine-year-old witness was shot and wounded on Friday evening on Cleveland's largely Black east side on the 1400 block near East 92nd Street and Wade Park Avenue. Police were called to the deadly scene at about 7: 30 pm. One of the victims of the quadruple homicide. Sherita Johnson,41, was 28 weeks pregnant with a baby boy, who also did not survive. The other  three victims were a 60-year-old man, a man 19,  and a girl 17. Johnson pull

Tanisha Anderson By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  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  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -The family of Tanisha Anderson and community activists, Cleveland NAACP members, and others will hold a vigil on Saturday,  Nov. 22 at 5 pm at the family home on 1372 Ansel Road in Cleveland where the 37-year-old unarmed Black woman was killed by police . (For directions take Saint Clair Avenue from downtown Cleveland, turn right onto 40th Street, take the first left onto Superior Avenue/U.S.-6 East, and turn slight right onto Ansel Avenue just past East 92nd Street).  CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FAMILY WEBSITE TO DONATE FOR FUNERAL SERVI

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-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 in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Friday, November 21, 2014 As the city of Ferguson, the nation and the Black community await a decision expected today or early next week on whether a county grand jury will indict the White Fergurson police officer that gunned down unarmed Black teen Michael Brown on criminal charges, a reprint of Brown's funeral, held earlier this year,  is re-published  below. By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) The casket of slain Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown

Charles E. Bibb Sr. 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, Tel: (216) 659-0473  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The greater Cleveland Carnegie Roundtable will host a city club- style luncheon and open meeting on Wednesday, Nov.19 at 3 pm at Angie's soul food restaurant in Cleveland, 3400 Saint Clair Avenue, to discuss the next Ohio Democratic Party chairperson. Call Cuyahoga County Democratic Party operative Charles E. Bibb Sr., a former East Cleveland councilman, for more information at (216) 659-4619. "We invite all interested people to attend, and would ask them to R.S. V. P., if possible," Bibb told Cleveland

An array of Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of November  29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams died at the scene. Cleveland police shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland Civil Rights and Constitutional Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of  Timothy Russell relative to the affiliated wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit that the city of Cleveland recently settled  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

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