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Press Release: Press conference, rally and balloon launch, Friday, August 2, 2013, 5 pm by greater Cleveland community activists with Black clergy, Black elected officials, family members of fallen and raped women, intersection, Shaw and Hayden Avenues

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com



To: All Media, For Immediate Release, From Kathy Wray Coleman, Imperial Women activists group (Note-The women will lead the rally with support from the men since it is a women's issue)


What: Re: Press Conference, rally and balloon launch on behalf of fallen and raped women and women subjected to other acts of violence and to call for federal, state and county assistance from President Obama, Governor Kasich and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald by community activists, Black women and victims families with support from Greater Cleveland Black clergy.


When/Where: Friday, August 2, 2013 at 5 pm  near the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland where the bodies of 3 Black women wrapped in garbage bags were found two weeks ago.  Speakers include Black clergy, Black elected officials, community activists, Cleveland NAACP officials and family members of women that are victims of rape, murder or other violence


Organizing Groups: Imperial Women, Oppressed People's Nation, Black on Black Crime Inc, Peace in the Hood, the Audacity of Hope Foundation and  Greater Cleveland Black Clergy groups


Contact No: 216-659-0473


From: Imperial Women and other activists groups including Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Women's Federation, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, Peace in the Hood, the Task Force  for Community Immobilization , the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network,  Survivors/Victims of Tragedy and the Audacity of Hope Foundation who have invited Greater Cleveland Black clergy to join in our previous call  made last week on CNN by Imperial Women for President Obama and now additionally Ohio Governor John Kasich and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to bring in resources relative to the epidemic of violence against women, including bringing in the national guard to search applicable vacant and abandoned buildings in Cleveland and East Cleveland. The groups also want a countywide missing persons unit and  designation of a state of emergency in the cities of both Cleveland and East Cleveland   as to the epidemic of violence against women and missing women. (Note: Rev Tony Minor, Executive Director of the United Pastor's in Mission, Rev David Hunter of the Baptist Ministers Conference  and Rev haw Braxton of the East Cleveland Concerned Ministers for Progress will announce the clergy's support of the call by Imperial Women and other activists, Black women, applicable Black elected officials and victims family members of interest  relative to the aforementioned).


Last Updated on Thursday, 01 August 2013 23:34

Ariel Castro sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for raping and kidnapping 3 women whom he held captive against their will for over 9 years, Michelle Knight speaks at sentencing

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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Russo sentenced Ariel Castro to life in prison without the possibility of parole on August 1 for kidnapping and raping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and holding the three women captive for 10 years at his west side home on Seymour Ave in Cleveland, Oh., a celebrated case that has captured the nation's attention.


"Nobody should have to go through what I went through," said Knight in a prepared statement.


Knight said that her bond with DeJesus helped her make it through the unprecedented ordeal that she dubbed "11 years in hell."


Addressing Castro in the packed courtroom, Knight said that "I will live on, you will die a little every day."

Last Updated on Friday, 02 August 2013 09:36 Read more...

Press Release: Greater Cleveland clergy, NAACP, community activists, Black eleceted officials to hold press conference, rally, balloon launch on Friday, August 2, 5 pm, intersection of Shaw, Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland, want national guard to come in

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com


CLEVELAND, Ohio- The United Pastors in Mission, East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, and the Baptist Ministers Conference will hold a press conference, balloon launch and rally with Cleveland NAACP officials, community activists and Black elected officials on Friday August 2, 2013 at the southwest corner of the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland near where the bodies of 3 Black women were found two weeks ago by police in a fetal position and in plastic bags.


Greater Cleveland's Black clergy, led by Bishop Tony Minor of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry in Cleveland, Pastor David Hunter of Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church in East Cleveland,  Pastor Shawn Braxton of New Life Cathedral Church in East Cleveland and Bishop Eugene Ward of Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland will join Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., the Oppressed People's Nation, Peace in the Hood,  the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Task Force for Community Mobilization, the Women's Federation  the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Revolution Books, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, the Audacity of Hope Foundation, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, other activists groups, Black women and victims family members to call  on President Obama and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to declare a state of emergency on missing women and violence against women in the majority Black cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland


They also want the president and governor to to send in resources, including the national guard to find missing women in vacant and abandoned  buildings in those cities. But they caution that it should be done legally and without violating privacy rights or the rights of law abiding landlords.

 

The groups also want a countywide missing persons database and a missing persons center.


The community groups are upset about the epidemic of violence against women in greater Cleveland and said that they will rally also to support either victims or victims families as to the aforementioned East Cleveland killings of Angela Deskins, Shirellda Terry and Shetisha Sheeley by accused serial killer Michael Madsion, and Cleveland west side rape victims Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight. Other women for whom the groups are rallying for include Cleveland ease side rape and murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone and Ashley Leszyeski, whose bodies were found earlier this year, and the 11 Black women strangled and murdered on Imperial Ave., also in Cleveland, between 2008 and 2009 and by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell.


East Cleveland is an impoverished suburb of Cleveland, a major American city.


For contacts for the rally, vigil, and march call United Pastor's in Mission Executive DirectorRev. Tony Minor at 216-696-2715, Baptist Ministers Conference President The Rev David Hunter. East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress President Shawn Braxton at 216-851-2777, the Cleveland NAACP at 216-231-6260, Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-659-0473, Oppressed People's Nation Chairman Ernest Smith at 216-682-5268, Black on Black Crime Founder Art McKoy at 216-253-4070, Peace in the Hood President Khalid Samad 216-538-4043.

 

In addition to Black clergy of greater Cleveland rally speakers include family members of greater Cleveland rape and murder victims, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright, State Sen Shirley Smith (D-21), State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), East Cleveland City Mayor Garty Norton, East Cleveland City Councilwoman Dr. Joy Jordan, Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell , Minister Tonya Williams, Community Activists Kathy Wray Coleman of Imperial Women, Ernest Smith of Oppressed People's Nation, Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc., Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood, Abdul Qahhar of the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, and Dr. Stewart and Valerie Robinson of Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor..

 

 

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 August 2013 06:38

Uppercut bus driver and upper cut victim both get 3 days in jail from Judge K.J. Montgomery

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper(www.clevelandurbannews.com)


CLEVELAND, Ohio- Shidea N. Lane (pictured), 29, the young Black woman who made national news last year for getting uppercut, choked, and thrown from a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus by since fired bus driver Artis Hughes who pleaded no contest on to misdemeanor disorderly conduct before Shaker Hts Municipal Court Judge K. J Montgomery and was found guilty was sentenced on July 30 to three days in jail.  And Hughes, who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault relative to the ordeal, got the same sentence from the judge.


Hughes (pictured) , 59, attacked Lane following a bus altercation on Sept. 18 .

 

The incident at issue, a divisive one to say the least, occurred on the border of Cleveland and Beachwood, Oh. and  went viral because of a cell phone video that hit Youtube.com


Attorney Dale Friedland, Lane's attorney, said that Hughes repeatedly called Lane a bitch during  the argument that led to Hughes ultimately punching Lane in the face before he literally tossed her off the bus on to the curb.

 

 

 

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 August 2013 08:03

O J Simpson wins parole on some of the robbery and kidnapping convictions that landed him a prejudicial sentence of nine to 33 years in prison

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues (www.clevelandurbannews.com) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473


LAS VEGAS, Nevada-Legendary former pro football player O.J. Simpson won a reprieve on Tuesday gaining parole on some of the robbery and kidnapping charges that got him a prejudicial nine to 33 year prison sentence nearly five years ago. But he must serve at least four more years on the charges that remain, including robbery and kidnapping with a gun, though he had no gun but was found guilty of arranging the ordeal.

 

Simpson, 65, took the stand in a Nevada courtroom earlier this year after not doing so by his former attorney's advice during his trial in 2008 and said that Miami attorney Yale Galanter knew that he did not know that two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers that he says were scamming him. He testified that Galanter advised him to "go get his stuff" and that the attorney did not tell him of a plea deal.

And Simpson, who is Black, reminded a prejudicial public that 33 years in the slammer is a bit much since he did not have a gun and "nobody got hurt."

Galanter contradicted much of Simpson's allegations during his testimony  but could not produce anything in writing confirming that he told his client of a plea deal.


As legal pundits predicted, he told the judge that Simpson got a raw deal but that Simpson allegedly knew guns would be involved.

 

Simpson's current attorneys accused Galanter of ineffective assistance of counsel at trial, and on appeal, and argued that all he wanted was O.J.'s money in exchange for selling him out.


The Black community is divided on the issue, some admitting that O.J. is still a target by the White establishment for beating criminal charges in 1995 that he murdered ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, both White. Other Blacks say that even after standing behind him in that case, O.J. continued to run around with White women and thumbed his nose at being Black.


Simpson won his celebrated capital murder case, one handed down by a majority Black jury that divided America along racial lines, with the late Johnny Cochran as his lawyer and a legal team subsequently dubbed "the dream team."


The brilliant Cochran, famous for winning record breaking excessive force and police brutality lawsuits against Las Angeles police, died of of a brain tumor in 2005.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 August 2013 08:01

Ariel Castro to be sentenced to life in prison August 1 for kidnapping raping and holding Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight captive in his Cleveland, Ohio home for more than nine years

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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, 52, who held Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight captive at his west side home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Oh. for more than nine years. will be sentenced to life in prison plus one thousand years without the possibility of parole on August 1. He is expected to speak as is one of his victims, all three of whom were fed only one meal a day and allowed two to three showers a week, court documents reveal.

Kidnapper and Serial  Rapist Ariel Castro


DeJesus was 14 when Castro kidnapped her, Berry's was nearly 17 and Knight, who is disabled, was 21. All three were lured into his van and DeJesus was a friend of Castro's daughter, who has disowned him. Her mother died during the captivity period and was allegedly a victim of his domestic violence.


Berry has a daughter by Castro, who has asked to see her as part of his life-in-prison plea deal.


DeJesus was held captive for nine years, Berry 10 and Knight 11 years.


A next door neighbor, Charles Ramsey, who is Black and now dubbed a hero,  said he heard women screaming at the home. He then broke in the house with another man and freed at least Berry who went with him to his home and called 911.


"'I heard this girl screaming and she's going nuts," Ramsey told reporters." I came to the front door and looked at her and she said my name is Amanda Berry, please get me out of the house. And she said that there were two more."

Last Updated on Friday, 02 August 2013 09:38

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