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Sybrina Fulton (left), the mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, and Samaria Rice, the mother of slain 12-year old Clevelandander Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police shot dead late last year for sporting a toy pellet gun at a public park on the city's largely White west side. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Trayvon Martin (left) and his killer George Zimmerman                                                                                  Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio - The mother of slain 17-year-old Florida teen Trayvon Martin spoke to a capacity audience on Sat

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists, area attorneys, and victims of police harassment, including members of the transgender community, will participate on Saturday in an open-to-the public town hall meeting on police brutality and excessive force. Other topics include racism and other prejudices, and the upcoming consent decree between the City of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice relative to its findings of impropriety and systemic problems in the largely White Cleveland Police Department.  The community meeting is sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Civil and Human Rights Coalition, in cooperation with other activists and community grassroots groups, and is February 21 from 11 am to 1 pm

Former Ohio senator Nina Turner, the chair of political engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist, political journalist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Hillary Clinton (left) and former state senator Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat who is now the chair of political engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party CLEVELAND, Ohio  -In spite of record breaking freezing temperatures in Cleveland, Ohio, and elsewhere across the nation this week, supporters of former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton for  president  held a  fundraiser  on  the city's west side   in the Ohio City

Attorney David Malik By Kathy Wray Coleman , editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news.   Coleman is a 21-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /     ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio    -Prominent Cleveland area Civil Rights attorney David Malik, who has represented clients in several high-profile lawsuits against Cleveland police and the city, including the family of Tanisha Anderson, the 37-year-old mentally ill woman who died in police custody in November, and unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, whom Cleveland police gunned down in November 2012 while slinging 37 bullets, was in court himself earlier today. (Editor's more: Malik was also the original attorney in the still pending wrongful death

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper (far right), ODP Vice Chairwoman Rhine McLin (third from right), who is also a former Dayton, Ohio mayor,  ODP Political Engagement Chairwoman Nina Turner (second from left), who is also a former state senator,  Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Young Black Democrats President Billy Sharp (second from right), and other organizers of a political forum held Tuesday evening at the Cleveland Heights Community Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The  political event was sponsored by t he Shaker Heights Democrats, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus, and the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Young Black Democrats. By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman , Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper CL

Whitney Houston Houston, a music icon,  in earlier years with her then husband Bobby Brown,  whom she married in 1992 and later divorced in 2007. Brown, who rose to moderate and short term fame as member of the R and B group New Edition and subsequent solo artist, had a rocky and sometimes abusive relationship with Houston., though Brown never hesitated to say that he would "always love Whitney." Bobbi Kristina with her late mother, famed pop singer Whitney Houston, in happier times and shortly before her untimely death at 48-year-old By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Famed pop singer Whitney Houston, the close cousin of music icon Dionne Warwick and ex wife of bad boy former New Edition singer Bobby Brown, died at 48. Her daughter with Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, is clin

Black Shield Police Association President Lynn Hampton, a 21-year veteran of the Cleveland police force 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, educator, and 21- 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 -Black Shield Police Association President Lynn Hampton will speak before the Carnegie Roundtable of greater Cleveland on the upcoming Cleveland police patrolman's entrance  exam and strategies to increase the number of Blacks  in the ranks of the largely White Cleveland police force at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 11 at Angie's Soul Food Restaurant at 3400 Saint Clair Avenue in downtown Cleveland.  The event is