By Kathy Wray Coleman

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio- The greater Cleveland community, elected officials and community activists groups will host 'The First Anniversary of the East Cleveland Serial Murders and Stop Violence Against Women and Find Their Killers Rally and Vigil' from 12:30 pm to 2:00  pm on Saturday, July 19, at the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland. For more information call the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473.  Confirmed speakers include the office of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, victims of heinous violence family members, including the family of E. 93rd Street Cleveland Murder victim Christine Malone, East Cleveland Councilman Nate Martin, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, East Cleveland School Board Member Tiffany Fisher,  Former Cleveland School Board President and Carl Stokes Brigade Member Genevieve Mitchell, Oppressed Peoples Nation Chairman Ernie Smith, The Rev Pam Pinkney-Butts, Black on Black on Black Crime Founder Art McKoy, Imperial Women Coalition Leader Kathy Wray Coleman, CNN Hero and domestic violence survivor Laura Cowan, Pierre Nappier, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy Leader Judy Martin, Carl Stokes Brigade Member Marva Patterson, and From Victim to Victory Inc President Christine Wilson.

The rally and vigil, said organizers, are to remember victims Shirellda Terry, 18, Angela Deskins, 38, and Shetisha Sheeley, 28, (pictured) and all other greater Cleveland women subjected to heinous crimes.

Terry's body was found in a garage leased to suspected serial killer Michael Madison on July 19, 2013 at the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland, a neighboring largely Black impoverished suburb of Cleveland, and the remains of Deskins and Sheeley were uncovered the following day in the same vicinity, one in a nearby vacant house and the other in the backyard.

Two of the women live in Cleveland and a wing is named after Terry at the East Cleveland Public Library where she was a student tutor. All three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags.

"We need the community to come out to remember this tragedy and the victims and their families, and to call for a cease fire on violence against women," said community activist Christine Wilson, who leads From Victim to Victory Inc.

"We call for a moratorium on violence against women in greater Cleveland and elsewhere and we demand more resources to deal with this epidemic in Cuyahoga County," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition.

Program speakers include victims family members, Black elected officials, anti-human trafficking affiliates, community activists, victims of crime,  and representatives from greater Cleveland women's advocacy groups.

Madison, 36, is in custody on a $6 million bond and awaits trial on numerous charges, including multiple counts of aggravated murder and kidnapping. He has pleaded not guilty and faces the death penalty.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-“The King,' better known by many as LeBron James, has returned to his original throne in Cleveland, Ohio. “The Decision' over whether to return or not finally came to a happy ending on Friday July 11. Cavaliers' fans were elated. It came four years and three days after James' first 'Decision,' one that saw him take his talents to the Miami Heat.

That infamous day in July of 2010 when James left Cleveland had to be on the minds of Cavaliers' fans, who are use to being spurned, as LeBron's possible return loomed. But after Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert's private plane was spotted in Miami on July 6, speculation grew quickly that Cleveland had gained the lead in the race for one of the nation's most talented basketball player. After July 6 the anticipation for LeBron to announce what team he had chosen grew nationally with each day and each hour, especially after James met with Miami Heat GM Pat Riley on July 9 and would not commit to the Heat.

LeBron would wait until Friday, July 11 at noon to release his decision to the world. Suddenly people all over Cleveland began to act strange. One man was seen walking down the street shouting 'welcome back to the Q' when there was no one within shouting distance of him. Others were seen getting out of their cars and doing a happy dance for no apparent reason, and running down the street with their cell phones in their hands. Thousands changed their plans for the evening to go to their local watering hole to celebrate. Meanwhile, the national focus switched to who The King chose and why. The explanation he gave for coming back to Cleveland will forever be remembered.

Pictured are Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald (in red tie), the democratic nominee for Ohio governor, Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich (in blue tie), and Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern (in light green tie)

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Kathy 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.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio-As the Nov. 4 election for Ohio governor looms Republican Incumbent Gov John Kasich and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic nominee, are neck-and-neck, polls show.

According to a Public Policy Polling poll that the Democrats began touting early this week,  Kasich is beating FitzGerald 45 percent to 44 percent among likely voters.

The poll  shows a serious trend that some say should alarm the Republicans.

Kasich, whose campaign war chest was at $9.3 million to FitzGerald's $836,000, according to campaign finance reports filed last month, led FitzGerald by 15 percentage points just in May, a Quinnipiac University poll showed.

Polls for the governor's race have vacillated in the past year. A  poll commissioned by Freedom to Marry Ohio conducted between December 6 and 8 of 1,011 of Ohio voters by PPP, one of the most accurate pollsters in America, found that if the election were held then, Kasich would have carried 40 percent of the vote, followed by FitzGerald at 38 percent.  FitzGerald held a 13 percent lead over Kasich in that poll with Independent voters.

“With more than 427,000 Ohioans out of work and the state’s unemployment worse than the nation’s for the first time in three years, voters are tired of Governor Kasich’s policies just benefiting the rich,” Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern told Cleveland Urban News.Com at the time of the December poll. “This poll shows what every struggling middle-class family already knows, John Kasich is vulnerable going into 2014 because under his leadership Ohio’s economy is headed in the wrong direction while the rest of the nation recovers.”

A February Quinnipiac poll shows a five point gap with Kasich leading FitzGerald, 43 percent to 38 percent, and the May Quinnipiac poll that  reveals a 15 point lead has Kaisch winning over Fitzgerald, 50 percent to 35 percent.

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NOTE: THE BELOW STORY ON PIMP JUDGE HARRY JACOB FOLLOWED A PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER STORY THAT BROKE AND ALLEGED THAT JACOB HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING AN OUTRIGHT PIMP, AND DURING THE TIME THAT HE WAS A SITTING JUDGE

Asked by Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leading digital Black newspaper, why Jacob is still put out as a judge though he has been suspended for pimping women and other alleged crimes, court personnel directed questions to Clerk of Court Tom Day, also allegedly involved in criminal activity, data show, but still on the job doing in Blacks and others too.

Jacob has pleaded not guilty to all charges and hired prominent Cleveland lawyer Kevin Spellacy to represent him.

The other judge on the Bedford Municipal Court, Brian Melling, is still hanging around too, doing in Blacks and others also, an investigation reveals, and as a White man, like Day, that is accused of thinking that he too, like Jacob, is above the law.

Melling and Day have harassed Blacks that come before the Bedford court, data show,  denying some of them counsel though deeming them indigent, and unless they go along with the program. Sources say that both have been caught bragging that they have the support of area Black leaders and politicians and the Cleveland NAACP, more specifically Cleveland criminal defense attorneys Michael Nelson Sr. and James Hardiman, relative to their anti-Black and anti-Democratic malfeasance. Nelson, say sources, says that he will do whatever it takes to keep monies coming into his law firm, even if he has to sell out the Cleveland NAACP and harass and defame Black women that come to him for help around the public corruption.