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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists, elected officials, and community members in general, led by the Imperial Women Coalition, Peace in the Hood, and Black on Black Crime Inc., will host the 9th-Year Anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders  of 11 Black women at 5 pm on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland on Oct 29, 2018.CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THE 2018 CLEVELAND IMPERIAL AVENUE MURDERS ANNIVERSARY RALLY (Editor's note: Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who usually leads the anniversary rallies, will not lead it this year due to judicial, prosecutorial and police harassment, Coleman has said).

Rally contact persons are community activists Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473, Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood at (216) 538-4043, and Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime Inc. and the Black Man's Army at (216) 804-6462. (For directions to the rally/vigil take Kinsman Rd from downtown Cleveland to East 123rd Street. Turn left, and go three blocks to 12205 Imperial Avenue).

Event speakers include state Rep Bill Patmon (D-10) of Cleveland, Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Ken Johnson, Cuyahoga County executive candidate Peter Corrigan, congressional candidate Dr. Beverly Goldstein, former Cleveland councilman Eugene Miller, former Cleveland Ward 4 council candidate and women's advocate Gail Sparks, activists Khalid Samad, Elaine Gohlstin, Alfred Porter Jr, Valerie Robinson, Brenda Adrine, Marva Patterson, Don Bryant  Rev. Pamela Pinkney -Butts, Donna Walker-Brown, Arnold Shurn, Bill Swain, and Genevieve Mitchell, Black clergy, and some family members of Black women murdered in Cleveland such as Angelique Malone, whose mother, Christine Malone, is a victim of the Cleveland East 93rd Street still at large serial murderer.

Malone left behind eight adult children.

The day of the upcoming Oct 29 anniversary rally marks the ninth year since 2009 when law enforcement authorities began pulling the first of what would ultimately become 11 dead Black bodies from and outside of Sowell's home on the city's largely Black east side in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Dead at the hands of Sowell are Tishana Culver, Leshanda Long, Michelle Mason, Tonia Carmichael, Nancy Cobbs, Amelda Hunter, Telacia Fortson, Janice Webb, Kim Yvette Smith, and Diane Turner.

"We call for a moratorium against violence against women and girls, inner city Black women and girls in particular, at the local, county, state, national and international levels," said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a founding member of the Imperial Women Coalition, the women's rights group derived from the unprecedented tragedy.

Coleman has led every anniversary rally since 2009, except for one, and says activists, led by Black women, "will continue to hold anniversary rallies until Anthony Sowell, who sits on death row, is brought to justice and the families of his victims are made whole, and until something is done about the apathy relative to raped and murdered inner city women and girls of Cleveland, Black women in particular."

Other participating activist groups include Carl Stokes Brigade, People's Forum, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, BEMAD, Cleveland African-American Museum, Cleveland Peacemakers, Rebuilding Our Village, Black Women's Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland, Find Our Children-The Missing-Ebony Alert, Refusefacism.org, Protecting Our Children's Safety Before and After School, Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com.

The now infamous serial killer, who is Black like his many victims, also raped three other Black women at his since demolished home on Imperial Avenue.

Dubbed the 'Cleveland strangler,' Sowell, 59, was convicted in 2011 by a Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas jury on 82 of 83 counts, including 11 counts of aggravated murder of the 11 Black women that he strangled to death at his home, and three counts of rape as to the rape of three other Black women, also at his home.

Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose, the trial court judge in the criminal case and a former Cleveland Browns football player, handed the serial killer a death sentence per the recommendation of the 12-member jury, the same jury that issued convictions weeks earlier.

Six of the 11 murdered women were killed by Sowell after Cleveland police released him from custody in 2008 on a rape complaint, the serial killer arrested again in 2009 on a rape complaint that stuck, but only after he murdered six more women.

Police also ignored missing persons reports filed by family members of the victims, allegedly because the victimized women, most, if not all of them, with substance abuse problems, were Black, and poor.

Sowell and his lawyers have exhausted all appeals that sought to overturn his convictions and death sentence, including to the U.S. Supreme court, which refused to hear his case in 2017.

Last month the city of Cleveland settled with the families of the six women murdered after Sowell was erroneously released from custody in 2008 by the cops for a a million dollars to share between them, the five remaining families still seeking justice via a lawsuit before seasoned Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst, who had tossed out the suit filed by the 11 families altogether, only to have it reinstated on appeal.

After taxes and legal fees the shared $1 million settlement, $167,000 to each of the six families, is hardly $70,000 each, and the remaining five families have yet to reach a settlement, Judge Fuerst also threatening to toss that suit out again for her friends at Cleveland City Hall and the negligent cops and detectives involved in investigating the tragic murders, some of the families have said.

A former U.S. marine, Sowell served 15 years in prison for attempted rape prior to the Imperial Avenue Murders.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.