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- 08 August 2013
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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed to hand out pepper spray tonight, August 7, for Black, other women after self defense training class, activity comes on heels of heightened violence against women in greater Cleveland
- 07 August 2013
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CLEVELAND, Ohio- In the wake of heightened violence against women in greater Cleveland from the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, to the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer Anthony Sowell, to the three Black women whose bodies were found in East Cleveland wrapped in garbage bags last month allegedly at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison, graduates from Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed (pictured) and the Mt. Pleasant Community Zone's neighborhood watch group will get pepper spray tonight, August 7, at 6 pm after a special training on self defense. The location of the gathering is the York Rite Masonic Lodge at 13512 Kinsman Road in Cleveland.
Alternative Defense Strategies LLC , with support from Mace Securities International, Inc., will provide the training on the proper use of pepper spray and present basic self-defense techniques, Reed said. For more information on the program contact Reed's Ward 2 office at 216-664-4945.
“We are helping Clevelanders take back their streets and their lives,” said Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. . “The best defense is good offense. I thank Alternative Defense Strategies LLC, Mace Securities International, Inc. and Walmart for stepping up and partnering with Ward 2 to improve safety in Cleveland.”
Walmart, said Reed, has donated the pepper spray to residents of his ward on the city's largely Black east side in the Kinsman and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods where poverty rates are alarming in comparison to other communities throughout Cleveland, and the state of Ohio.
Reed and a some other community leaders have been urging residents to become more involved in the community safety issues following the unprecedented acts of violence against women across racial lines in Cleveland and East Cleveland, a largely Black neighboring impoverished suburb of the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.
The Neighborhood Watch Program assists residents to become more resistant to crime and was designed to increase the awareness level of citizens to crime through education, self motivation and community involvement.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 21:11
Gina DeJesus' father to watch demolition of home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro tomorrow, it is the second home of a serial rapist to be demolished in Cleveland since the home of serial killer Anthony Sowell
- 06 August 2013
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Pictured are child serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro (in Black) and convicted serial killer and Cleveland strangler Anthony Sowell (in orange jail jumpsuit) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Kathy Wray Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper. Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio- Demolition crews on tomorrow morning will tear down the home on Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side where convicted rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro (pictured) held Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight captive for about a decade until they escaped earlier this year. Castro turned the home over to the Cuyahoga County Land Bank as part of a plea deal that got him a sentence last week of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Maureen Harper, communications director for the city of Cleveland, said the demolition will begin in the early morning.
"The demolition will likely begin at 7:00 am and will continue throughout the day," Harper told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper.
Seymour Avenue has been blocked off since this evening, though swarms of media from across the nation, and internationally, are canvassing the area in anticipation of tomorrow's event, one that could bring a degree of closure to the unprecedented ordeal, particularly to Felix DeJesus, Gina DeJesus' father, who said he would be on hand to watch Castro's house come tumbling down.
Gina DeJesus was 14-years- old when Castro abducted her, Berry was just under 17, and Knight was 21. Police found 99 feet of chain at the Castro home following the escape.
Tomorrow marks the second time the home of a serial rapist has been torn down in Cleveland since 2011 when demolition crews tore down the Imperial Avenue home of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell (pictured).
A former marine who spent four years in prison for rape before he committed the celebrated serial murders, Sowell, 53, sits on death row as his death sentence and aggravated murder and other criminal convictions are on appeal before the Ohio Supreme Court. He strangled and murdered 11 Black women at his home on the city's majority Black east side and raped several others there.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 06:10
Ohio State Senator Nina Turner and state Representatives Sandra Williams and Armond Budish to host town hall meeting on state budget bill on Monday, August 5, 2013 at 6 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library
- 05 August 2013
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Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), State Representative Sandra Williams (D-11), State Representative Armond Budish (D-9) and State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21)
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Kathy Wray Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper. Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) and state Reps. Sandra Williams (D-11) and Armond Budish (D-9) will host a town hall meeting on House Bill 59, the state budget bill, on Monday, August 5, 2013 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, though tickets are needed.
Turner, Williams and Budish, all Democrats, say the budget bill impacts greater Clevelanders and other Ohioans relative to a variety of public policy issues effecting middle class and poor people including cuts to Ohio's school funding formula, restrictions by women on access to healthcare increases in sales and property taxes, and decreases in funding for job opportunities and workforce training.
Budish of Beachwood hopes to win next year's Democratic primary for the Cuyahoga County Executive seat now held by Ed FitzGerald, who is running for governor next year. He
faces to date fired former county sheriff Bob Reid and state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-21), the only Black and only female in the county executive race thus far.
Members of the Ohio General Assembly, which is made up of the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives, adopt state laws.
Turner and Smith are the only Black state senators in the Ohio General Assembly from northeast Ohio.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 August 2013 06:39
Congressional Black Caucus led by Rep. Marcia Fudge denounces racism at Capitol Hill hearing, by Washington Bureau Plain Dealer Reporter Sabrina Eaton
- 05 August 2013
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By Sabrina Eaton, Plain Dealer Washington Reporter The Plain Dealer
on July 30, 2013 at 6:25 PM, updated July 30, 2013 at 7:12 PM
Even though they don't control the House of Representatives this term, Democrats can still make points by booking meeting rooms and inviting witnesses to testify at unofficial hearings on Capitol Hill.
On Tuesday, the Congressional Black Caucus led by Marcia Fudge of Warrensville Heights, used that prerogative to convene a "conversation on race and justice in America" where they expressed displeasure with events like the Supreme Court's decision to strike down portions of the federal Voting Rights Act and the acquittal of Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last year.
Calling race "a topic that has too long been a thorn in the side of this nation," Fudge said she expected to include Republicans in the discussion, as well, "once we can figure out how we want to talk about it ourselves."
She said members of her group are working on legislation to address racial profiling, overturn "stand your ground" laws, and restore parts of the Voting Rights Act that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned.
"We must get serious about acknowledging the impact racial profiling, violence and inequitable treatment under the law is having on our communities, and of particular concern to me, on our young people," Fudge said. "We must be vocal and honest about the impact of attacks on our civil, constitutional and economic rights that thousands of people of all races fought and died to protect."
Speakers at the gathering, including Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, said racism has been on the rise since President Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. She cited a 2012 poll by the Associated Press that found 51 percent of Americans expressing "explicit anti-black" views, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said he believes economic uncertainty is behind a "rise in a vicious tone of racism" that he has perceived, as people who feel anxious express "animus towards anyone who is different or seems to be a threat."
"The inauguration of the first black president, I think, brought this whole thing to a head for a lot of people," Robinson said. Read more at Sabrina Eaton, Plain Dealer Washington Reporter
Last Updated on Monday, 05 August 2013 05:12
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