CLEVELAND, Ohio-As grassroots factions such as The Imperial Women Coalition, in cooperation with the Audacity of H.O.P.E Foundation , The Cleveland African-American Museum Cleveland City Council members, and other community affiliates, prepare for a candidate's debate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor on Thurs. Jan. 5 from 5:30 pm. to 8:00 pm at Lil Africa Party Center at 6816 Superior Ave in Cleveland, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's Largest Newspaper, is fighting with county prosecutor Bill Mason and the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper on whether the county prosecutor should be appointed rather than elected.
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Less than a week after U.S. Rep Marcia Fudge (D-11) announced her bid for reelection and snatched endorsements from nearly all of the Democratic elected officials from her 11th Congressional District including a host of mayors, members of the state legislature , and Cleveland and Akron city council members, the Republican controlled state legislature passed controversial HB 369, a state law of Ohio's revised map of 16 new congressional districts.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Rev. Charles "C.J." Matthews, senior pastor at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in Cleveland, was sentenced to 15 months in prison yesterday for failing to pay $90 thousand in IRS income taxes collected by the mega church between Oct. 2005 and Jan. 2007 on the wages of church employees.
COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Ohio Supreme Court last week rejected a request by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason to hear an appeal of a state appellate court's decision for a retrial of Joaquin Hicks, sending the case back to the courtroom of Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul for another trial in the tragic case of a robbery of two young Cleveland Clinic employees that turned to murder.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-Representatives of the grassroots groups dubbed the Imperial Women, Goddesses Blessing Goddesses, Black on Black Crime, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, the Carl Stokes Brigade, ESOP, Occupy Cleveland, the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, the People's Forum, the People's Fightback Center, Bailout The People Movement, People For The Imperial Act, the Committee To Bring Home Jamela And Jamyla, and a host of other community affiliates will hold a prayer vigil and forum tomorrow, Dec. 6, at 7:00 am next to Serial Killer Anthony Sowell's Home to support it being torn down. Demolition crews will begin the process in conjunction with an order from Cleveland Housing Court Judge Ray Pianca.
