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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 athy Wray 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 ) Cleveland, Ohio- There will be a mass protest against police killings and police brutality at 6 pm on Monday, December 8 on the steps of City Hall before the 7 pm Cleveland City Council  meeting. It will go forward with or without a meeting and is sponsored by unions (SEIU), revolutionary communists, Black activists and women activists groups, Black leaders, and others Community activists say that it is time for some members of the top brass of the Cleveland Police Department to step down and that they should not get a free pass because they are White, and male in a largely

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Tel: (216) 659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio - (See flyer below) The Word Church will sponsor a forum discussion on Monday, December 8 at 7 pm in Warrensville Heights, a largely Black suburb of Cleveland, with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Police Chief Calvin Williams and other Black leaders on the topic of whether Cleveland will become the next Ferguson as the city deals with a crisis of police killings against the Black community and a scathing report released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice that reveals systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department. Meanwhile, union groups, led by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and community activists will protest an hour earlier at 6 pm on the steps of Cleveland City Hall. The Word Church is led by Senior Pastor Dr. R.A. Vernon and is one of greater Cleveland's most prestigious religious venue

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  K a thy Wray 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 ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Tanisha Anderson, the unarmed 37-year-old schizophrenic Black woman killed three weeks ago by Cleveland police at her home on Cleveland's east side while in handcuffs, was laid to rest on Saturday, Dec 6 following funeral services at Chapel of Hope Church in Cleveland. The family is represented in the case by renowned greater Cleveland attorney David Malik. Meanwhile, the community awaits a report from the county coroner on whether Anderson's death will be ruled a homicide or something else to protect the cop that killed her. A

Cleveland Heights Municipal Court Judge A. Deane Buchanan Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock Former Bedford Municipal Court judge and convicted criminal Harry Jacob Not pictured. Bedford Municipal Court Judge Brian Melling 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 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- As the U.S. Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, prepares to negotiate a consent decree with the city of Cleveland following an investigation that reveals systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department, from excessive force issues to Blacks and others getting illegally tasere

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 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- Greater Cleveland community activists, after rallying  in downtown Cleveland on Public Square today against a  decision  by a New York grand  jury  not to indict officers in the killing of unarmed Black man Eric Garner, will hold a public meeting at 4 pm on Saturday, Dec.6 at the Main Classroom Auditorium at Cleveland State University The event is billed as a  discussion  on police murder and the New Jim Crow, and to organize for a week of protesting in Cleveland around mass incarceration and police  brutality,  beginning on Monday, Dec. 8. The meeting come

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-The open-to- the-public  memorial service for 12-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice, who was Black and unarmed when he was gunned down by police on Nov 22 at a public  playground on the city's largely White west side, is today, Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11 am at  Mount Sinai Baptist Church on Cleveland's east side. Viewing was Sunday afternoon at Gaines Funeral Home. Rice had a toy pellet gun that he allegedly was pointing at people before police arrived following a 9-1-1 call,  though surveillance video shows no crowd when police zoo

J.J. Rice, Tamir Rice's grandfather, stands between Walter Jackson and Michelle Russell at a rally and vigil Saturday night to mark the two-year anniversary since 13 officers fired 137 shots at Russell and Williams after a high-speed chase. By  Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group  Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   on November 29, 2014 at 9:25 PM EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Families of three people shot and killed by Cleveland police came together Saturday night, two years after Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were killed at the end of a high-speed chase and a week after  Tamir Rice  was killed in a city park. The prayer and vigil, organized by Black on Black Crime and the Imperial Women Coalition, was part cathartic exercise and part anti-police violence rally at the Heritage Middle School parking lot where 13 officers fired 137 shots at Russell and Williams on Nov. 29, 2012.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND.COM ( www.clevelandu

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. Activists and victims family members will rally and hold a vigil beginning at 4 pm  at Heritage middle school on Saturday, November 29 to mark the second anniversary of the tragic  incident. The rally will also address other victims of deadly force by the largely White Cleveland Police Department. Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland police fatal killing victim Tanisha Anderson Cleveland police fatal 12

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 -CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former longtime Cleveland Municipal Court judge George W. Trumbo, the 64-year husband of retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge Sara J. Harper and a brother-in-law of the late Call and Post associate editor and publisher Connie Harper, died on Thursday, Nov 20 after a long-term illness. He was 88. Funeral services are entrusted to E.F. Boyd and Son Funeral Home(www.efboyd.com) with a wake on Saturday, Nov. 29 at 9 am, followed by funeral services at 10 am, both at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church at 3290 East 126th Street in

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson Slain Missouri teen Michael Brown 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 ) St Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCullouch FERGUSON, Missouri -  A largely White St. Louis County grand jury on Monday unanimously refused to issue an indictment on criminal charges against Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed Black teen Michael Brown on Aug 9. The grand jury at issue was chosen by a White judge. "They determined that no probable cause exist to return an indictment," said St Louis County Prosecutor  Robert McCullouch i