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Cleveland.com Set Weather Sign in NEWS LOCAL NEWS BUSINESS SPORTS H.S. SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT Photos from The Plain Dealer Cleveland Area News, Community, Sports, Weather Images & Pictures Vigil, protests for Tamir Rice Monday, November 24, 2014 7:59 PM 0   By  Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer  Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   Follow Kathy Wray Coleman of Imperial Women Coalition makes her voice heard, shouting to end the violence, at a vigil in honor of Tamir Rice. (Lynn Ischay/The Plain Dealer}. The 12-year-old Rice was killed Nov 22 by a rookie Cleveland police officer who mistaked a toy gun for a real one. Hundreds of community activists and others, including Rice's family members, rallied for Rice at Public Square in downtown Cleveland and at the Cudell Recreation Center on Cleveland's west side on Monday, Nov. 24 Share this photo Print Email Story to

Pictured is 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police shot and killed on Nov. 22 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-A rookie Cleveland police officer has shot and killed a BB gun wielding 12-year-old boy who was Black, raising questions on whether the Cleveland Police Department is out of control and whether Black boys are at risk for inadvertent or deadly-force-type Cleveland police killings. The replica gun was an air-soft BB gun, a toy gun, police said. A 2012 study reviewed by ProPublica that analyzed federal data of public shootings reveals that on a national scale, Black men and b

United States President Barack Obama 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 ) LAS VEGAS, Nevada - President Barack Obama on Friday announced his decision to sign a historic executive order on immigration reform.The controversial measure allocates more resources to law enforcement on the issue, makes it easier for immigrants to try and stay in the country and contribute to society, and protects millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network President Don Bryant Don Bryant, president of the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, applauded Obama.

Tanisha Anderson  From the Metro Desk of 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  Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -The family of Tanisha Anderson, community activists and the Cleveland NAACP, led by Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright, held a vigil on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the family home on Ansel Road in Cleveland where the 37-year-old unarmed Black woman was killed by police on Nov 12.   CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FAMILY WEBSITE TO DONATE FOR FUNERAL SERVICES OR OTHERWISE FOR TANISHA ANDERSON Community activists, some of whom came with stop-police- brutality signs, were asked not to rally but to allow the family to pray, and Cleveland NAACP affiliates asked some activists also not to publicly criticize police at the event, which was covered by local television channels 5 an

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