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Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidate Mike O'Malley will meet publicly to take questions from Black activists, the Black Women's PAC, the Cleveland NAACP and the Black community at forum on Feb 11 at the Harvard Community Services Center in Cleveland
- 10 February 2016
- Kathy
Who: Cleveland area Black greater Cleveland activist groups, including the Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc, the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Million Women March Cleveland, in cooperation with the Black Women's Political Action Committee (Black Women's -PAC) of greater Cleveland.
When: Thursday, February 11, 2016, 5:30 pm-8:00 pm as to an event with Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidate Michael O'Malley in a forum open to the public and moderated by Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson (Note: The Democratic primary is Tuesday, March 15 and O'Malley and current prosecutor Tim McGinty, both of whom are Democrats, are the only people running for county prosecutor in both the Democratic and Republican primary, with no independent candidate to date. Other candidates in other races for the March 15 primary election in Cuyahoga County are also invited and McGinty has an open invitation to attend).
Where: The Harvard Community Services Center, 18240 Harvard Avenue in Cleveland in Ward 1 on the city's east side, a block from John F. Kennedy High School
Why: For community participation relative to a county prosecutor's race that will have a longstanding impact on the Black community of greater Cleveland
What: A getting to know you forum with Cuyahoga County prosecutor's candidate Michael O'Malley with hard and unfiltered questions from the Black community and community activists. Panelists include East Cleveland Councilman Nate Martin, activists Ada Averyhart, Marva Patterson and Lavitta Murray of the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Imperial Women Coalition and the Million Women March Cleveland, Black on Black Crime president and activist Al Porter, and Black Women's-PAC sisters Dr. Mary Rice, Annette Fisher, Sheba Marcus-Bey, Valorie Aden, and Avery McCauley. (Note: Questions from the community will follow questions to O'Malley from the community panel)
Panelists questions to O'Malley will pertain, in part, to Tamir Rice, the 137 shots, necessary public policy changes, the county grand jury process, housing and economics, police brutality and excessive force, judicial assignments, indigent counsel, juveniles, disparities in sentencing, incarceration issues, education, violence against women, the death penalty, and the consent decree for police reforms between the city of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Speakers at the forum include local activist Genevieve Mitchell, former Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, and John Hairston, who is representing Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. Mitchell will chronicle the struggles by activists for justice for the victims, their families and the community, and for public policy changes relative to violence against women and police abuse and killings from the Imperial Avenue Murders to the police killing in November 2014 of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Jones will address over prosecutions, juveniles in our legal system, police issues and the Feckner case.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).
Maurice White, Earth, Wind & Fire singer and co-founder, dead at 74
- 05 February 2016
- Kathy
Earth, Wind and Fire vocalist and co-founder Maurice White (pictured) died in his sleep in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. A rep for the band confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone. He was 74.
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Prostitution scandal brings self- imposed NCAA Tournament ban of University of Louisville's men basketball team as the NCAA continues to investigate....The scandal broke via a tell-all book by escort Katina Powell titled "Breaking Cardinal Rules"
- 08 February 2016
- Kathy
Pictured is self-proclaimed escort Katina Powell, whose tell-all book titled "Breaking Cardinal Rules" unleashed a prostitution scandal at the University of Louisville and claims that team staffers paid thousands of dollars for sex for players and recruits to the NCAA Division I basketball team. The Cardinals took home the NCAA championship title in 2013 under head coach Rick Pitino, who has denied prior knowledge of the sex scandal. But on Friday the university banned post season play for 2016, which wipes out any possibilities of NCAA Tournament appearances, hoping to minimize any penalties that a pending NCAA investigation might bring. The Commonwealth Attorney's office in Louisville, Kentucky is investigating possible crimes relative to the controversy, and has begun issuing subpoenas.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 23-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) /(www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). CLICK HERE TO GO TO KATHY WRAY COLEMAN AT GOOGLE PLUS WHERE SHE HAS SOME 2.5 MILLION INTERNET VIEWS alone.
Black Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was running for president. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-LOUISVILLE, Kentucky-A 2016 postseason ban against the University of Louisville men's basketball team that will keep the team, which has an 18-4 record and is in second place in the competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, out of possible play in the NCAA Tournament was imposed by the university on Friday amid a prostitution scandal.
“The University of Louisville determined that it was reasonable to conclude that violations had occurred in the men’s basketball program in the past,” said U of L President James R. Ramsey in a press release where he said also that he still has confidence in head coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich.
Head coach at the University of Louisville since 2001, Pitino, who is not new to scandals, led the Cardinals to the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
That year the Cardinals defeated the Michigan Wolverines 82-76 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia to take home the coveted college basketball title.
Meanwhile, the Commonwealth's Attorney's office and the NCAA continue to investigate claims that former U of L basketball staffer Andre McGee, allegedly without Pitino's knowledge, arranged for escorts and sex for players and recruits, allegations outlined in a scathing book titled "Breaking Cardinal Rules."
McGee is is Black, and now an assistant coach at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
The tell-all book at issue was published by Indianapolis Business Journal Book Publishing
and released last October.
It is written by Katina Powell, 43, who is Black, and says that she, her three daughters, ages 15, 17 and 19 at the time, and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars for their services between 2010-14.
In the book Powell says she was paid some $10,000 to arrange the consensual sex during the four-year period.
Pitino, 63, denies any prior knowledge of the prostitution claims, and said that he stands behind his players, and his record as a winning coach.
The NCAA could levy harsher punishment to the college team of a college town in the state of Kentucky that can brag of NCAA championship titles along with the University of Kentucky Wildcats out of Lexington, Kentucky, the state's second largest city behind Louisville, the hometown of international boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
Powell has a pending lawsuit against the university and others and says that she is prepared to go to jail if necessary, and a group of students has sued Powell saying her claims have hurt the reputation of the university and thus, their educational future, the latter suit of which some legal experts have dubbed absolutely "frivolous."
Whether Powell and the other female escorts can be criminally prosecuted while former and current team officials and U of L basketball players and recruits that participated in the alleged prostitution ring go free remains to be seen, if any charges come at all as a result of the nationally- watched fiasco.(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).
Cleveland Police Commission Co-Chair Dr. Rhonda Williams invites community to open meeting with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community on February 3, 2016 at 6:30 pm at 6600 Detroit Avenue....Studies show that police harass the LGBT community
- 03 February 2016
- Kathy
Pictured is Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, co-chair of the Cleveland Community Police Commission
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 23-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). CLICK HERE TO GO TO KATHY WRAY COLEMAN AT GOOGLE PLUS WHERE SHE HAS SOME 2.5 MILLION INTERNET VIEWS alone.
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Community Police Commission, a group recently formed per the court-monitored consent decree between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the city of Cleveland on police reforms, will hold a public meeting from 6:30 pm -8:30 pm on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community (LGBT) Center of Greater Cleveland at 6600 Detroit Avenue on the city's west side.
Established in 1975, the mission of the LGBT Community Center is "to create a community that celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every person regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, and inclusive of class, race and ability."
According to a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com from police commission co-chair Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, also an associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, the event is part of the police commission's bias free policing initiative, and the community is encouraged to attend and to make recommendations to the commission.
A 2015 study by the Williams Institute, a national think tank at the UCLA School of Law, found that discrimination by law enforcement across the country against the LGBT community is an ongoing and pervasive problem, and LGBT members of greater Cleveland have complained at community forums led by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and other city officials that Cleveland police have allegedly harassed them.
Today's meeting comes on the heels of a demand by the Cleveland NAACP for Cleveland Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis to resign from the 13-member police commission after he made harsh and derogatory public statements against two unarmed Blacks gunned down in 2012 by 13 non-Black cops in response to the recent firings and suspensions of several of them.
Loomis has refused to step down and did not attend a police commission meeting held last month at the Harvard Community Services Center in Cleveland that drew community activists that also want the union head to resign from the commission. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).
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