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National Bill of Rights Defense Committee Field Organizer George Friday From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog A national field organizer sent in by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee met with leaders and members of the Imperial Women, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Oppressed People's Nation and a host of other organizations on Saturday around the Imperial Avenue Murders and other concerns impacting the Black community. About 40 people representing community grassroots factions, including the People's Forum, Black on Black Crime, Cleveland FIST, Worker's World and the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, listened attentively as George Friday, a nationally renowned field organizer, told the group of community activists that empowerment is key to community organizing and that the strength in fighting community issues must come from the local level. "You have the power," said

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Tina Bronaugh (lt.) and her daughter, Destini Bronaugh From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Former Collinwood High School student Destini Bronaugh, who graduated this summer and is awaiting trial before Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough on misdemeanor charges or resisting arrest and obstruction of official business, rejected the judge's offer of probation in lieu of trial offer at a pretrial yesterday. Had Bronaugh agreed to the plea deal and sucessfully completed the proposed selective intervention program all charges would have subsequently been dropped, though any such agreement is in essence an admission of wrongdoing, comnnunity activists that attended the pretrial said. The celebrated case stems from an arrest at the school on May 13 in what community activists say is retaliation for Bronaugh's participation in a student organized

From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Attorney George L. Forbes on Sunday was elected to a 10th term as president of the Cleveland NAACP, beating opponent Lawrence R. Floyd by 12 votes with 200 members voting, NAACP officials said. The 79-year-old Forbes, who is also general counsel for the Call and Post Newspaper, Cleveland's Black press, had said in Sept. that he was tired and would not run but got in the race as advocates of the Black community pushed for his continued local leadership of America's most well known Civil Rights organization. A former Cleveland City Council president from 1974-1989, who often sparred with then Cleveland mayor and now Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), and an unsuccessful candidate for mayor who lost to Mike White in a Black against Black contest in 1989, the controversial Forbes remains a figure in local and national politics. And though Blacks sometimes get mad and cha

Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Cleveland branch NAACP will hold its election for officers and executive committee members Sun., Nov. 14 from 2-5 PM at Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Cleveland, 2940 Martin Luther King Dr. Cleveland Attorney George Forbes, who is running for another two-year term as president after announcing at the branch's September meeting that he was tired and had had enough, is facing opposition from Cleveland area attorney Lawrence Floyd, a former Assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor who resigned in disrepute, and husband to controversial Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Judge Alison Nelson Floyd. Forbes has put together a slate of six candidates for offices, including himself, that consists of only one female, and her role is NAACP secretary. In addition to Arlene Anderson as secretary, others running on the Forbe's slate are Cleve

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Elect Maureen O'Connor Outgoing Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network (An editorial by Editor Kathy Wray Coleman) I predicted that Ohio Supreme Court sitting justice Maureen O' Connor, 61, would beat recently appointed Chief Justice Eric Brown on Tuesday for the chief justice seat, and so did a large number of others. And her win over Brown is still better for the Black community, even though O'Connor is a Republican and Brown, a Democrat that hails from Cuyahoga County but spent recent years as a Franklin County Common Pleas judge, the county that includes the city of Columbus, the state's capital. Women can clap too, since Justice O'Connor becomes the first female to hold Ohio's chief justice slot, one that voters decide rather than the process of peer selection among sitting justices. Outgoing Democratic Gov. Ted

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network As the Imperial Women and a host of some 16 other organizations, including the Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP, prepare for a rally and vigil on Oct. 29 as to the one-year anniversary that the remains of what would ultimately be 11 Black women found at the home of alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell, a Congressional resolution sponsored around the matter by Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11) awaits passage by the House of Representatives. "We again thank Congresswoman Fudge for meeting with the Imperial Women and other groups around the issue of violence against women and the Imperial Avenue Murders earlier this year and we patiently await passage of the resolution by the House," said Kathy Wray Coleman, a leader of the Imperial Women, a grassroots group that takes on women's issues and was formed around the unprecedented murders on Im

Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes An Editorial By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newds Blog and Media Network Join us on Friday, Oct 29th at E 123rd and Imperial Avenue in Cleveland at 5 pm for the anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders via a rally and vigil. This is to remember what happen and to fight to eradicate violence against women. The Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP, which is led by Cleveland Attorney George Forbes, a has been who is also general counsel for the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper, said last week that it would be there and I have been threatened by certain Black leaders, saying that Forbes allegedly paid Corrupt Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, who is White, to continue her harassment by lobbying Call and Post officials for an endorsement. Forbes went against Black women running for judgeships in the May Democratic primary and he is t

From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network -----NO TRUTH, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE---- JOIN WITH US FOR A UNIFIED ANNIVERSARY RALLY AT 5 PM ON OCT. 29, 2010 AND A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN FRONT OF THE ANTHONY SOWELL MURDER HOUSE TO REMEMBER THE 11 BLACK WOMEN KIDNAPPED, RAPED AND MURDERED ON IMPERIAL AVENUE IN CLEVELAND. WE SHALL ACCESS WHETHER EFFECTIVE PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE ISSUE AS WELL AS BRIEFLY ADDRESS OTHER ISSUES IMPACTING SPECIFIC BLACK AND OTHER WOMEN, AND POOR PEOPLE CLEVELAND CITY OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED A YEAR AGO ON OCT. 29. 2009 WHAT WOULD, BY FINDINGS THROUGH THE WEEKS, ULTIMATELY BECOME THE REMAINS OF THE 11 BLACK MURDERED WOMEN, ALL FOUND AT THE HOME OF SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER ANTHONY SOWELL, A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER WHO SPENT 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE.. HE IS AWAITING TRIAL ON NUMEROUS COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED MURDER, RAPE, KIDNAPPING AND OTHER CHARGES. LET

From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.Com andthe Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network---------------------------------------------------------------------------The DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network announce endorsements for the Nov. 2, 2010 general election in Cuyahoga County, which includes the City of Cleveland, as follows: (Aside from Brian Moriarty, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and Roz McAllister for a State Rep. seat, all of whom are Republican, the endorsements are Democratic):Federal Offices:U.S. Senate- Lee Fisher U.S. Representative-10th District-Dennis Kucinich U.S. Representative-11th District-Marcia L. FudgeJudicial Offices:Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court- Justice Maureen O' ConnorOhio Supreme Court Justice-Mary Jane TrappJudge of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County-Term commencing 1/3/2011-Brian Moriar

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network A case against a Black Cleveland schools student arrested at a student organized protest of district wide teacher layoffs at Collinwood High School in May and charged with assaulting police was tossed out by a juvenile court magistrate at trial on Wednesday after prosecutors concluded their case and the girl's attorney moved for dismissal for a lack of evidence. And the president of the police union is hot, vowing that an appeal to a juvenile court judge of the magistrate's decision for a possible reversal of it is possible and likely upcoming, though authority to file any such appeal rests with the county prosecutor's office DeAsia Bronaugh, 17, had been charged with two felony counts of assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, all brought by the office of embattled Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason on behalf of the State o

Cleveland, Oh. Mayor Frank G. Jackson From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Notice below from Cleveland area Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman regarding the upcoming protest against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson To all media and the community. Please pass this on. The protest scheduled for 3 pm on Sat., Sept. 25, 2010 in front of the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson at 2327 E.38th St. and Central Ave. will go forward as was determined by a vote last month at the home of Community Activist Don Bryant, President of the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network and a leader of the People's Forum. Also involved are the Imperial Women, Cleveland FIST, the Oppressed People's Nation and members of Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Black on Black Crime Inc. and the Carl Stokes Brigade. We shall address the illegal mistreatment and illegal prosecutions and police and prosecutorial misconduct against Black women, in

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network County Exexcutive Candidate and Lakewood Mayor Edward FitzGerald Former County Executive Candidate Terri Hamilton Brown County Council Candidate Yvonne Conwell County Council Candidate Pernel Jones Jr. County Council Candidate C. Ellen Conally County Council Candidate Julian Rogers Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Former County Council Candidate John A. Boyd The Black candidate for the Cuyahoga County Executive slot that key Black leaders such as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11) were pushing lost to suburban Lakewood, Oh. Mayor Edward FitzGerald in Tuesday's Democratic primary election. A favorite of union leaders and hardcore White Democrats, and the endorsed candidate of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, FitzGerald beat Terri Hamilton Brown 48, 720 votes to

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Community activists will stage a protest in front of the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson at 3 pm on Sat., Sept. 25 to call on the mayor to stand up and speak out as to the disenfranchisement of Blacks and women via alleged police misconduct and malicious prosecutions by Cleveland City Law Director Robert Triozzi, and the absence of Blacks and women from his appointed law enforcement leadership team where he has appointed no Blacks or women as law director, safety director, chief of police, chief prosecutor or EMS commissioner. (Note: When the mayor was questioned by Black leaders some five years ago when he took office as to the lack of diversity as to his law enforcement leadership team he said that he chose the "best qualified." Last year the remains of 11 Black women were found on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland at the home of suspecte

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The attorney for Cleveland area journalist Kathy Wray Coleman has filed an appeal of a dismissal three weeks ago by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty of a lawsuit alleging that the 16-year journalist was maliciously prosecuted in 2005 in Shaker Hts Municipal Court by the City of Beachwood in retaliation for her articles in the Call and Post Newspaper and for her community activism. In addition to arguing that McGinty violated the law and dismissed the lawsuit a second time in retaliation for its previous reinstatement by a state appeals court and an affidavit of prejudice filed against him with the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, the notice of appeal filed by Coleman's attorney alleges that a hearing scheduled before McGinty today is illegal and retaliatory for the appeal and othe