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Pictured is domestic violence survivor Laura Cowan, also a CNN Hero |
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.
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Domestic violence survivor and kidnapping victim Laura Cowan, also a CNN Hero, will keynote the 6th Anniversary of the Cleveland East 93rd Street Serial Murders rally and march on Thursday. March 28, 2019 at the intersection of E. 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue on the city's largely Black east side, the rally, that will include the families of the murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Ashley Leszyeski, Christine Malone, Jameela Hasan, and Alianna DeFreeze families, set to begin at 5 pm.
For more information contact organizer Kathy Wray Coleman of Women's March Cleveland and Imperialwomencoalition.com Tel: (216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews. com).
All five were killed along a two mile strip near East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue up to Harvard Avenue.
Other than Alianna, a teenager abducted on her way to school in 2017 and later murdered in an abandoned home by Christopher Whitaker, who now sits on death row for the murder of the 14-year-old Black girl, the killer or killers remain at large as to the other victims, all of them Black but Leszyeski, whose mother and sister will speak, along with three of the Malone's grown children.
The grandmother of DeFreeze is also slated to atend, organizers said.
"We are pleased to have a CNN Hero, as to Cowan, among others , participate, in this anniversary march for these innocent victims as we seek closure for the families and call on city officials to update us on cold cases involving poor Black and other women and children, only Alianna's killer caught and brought to justice as to this annivrsary rally and march," said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, an organizer of the event since 2014 and who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and is a key organizer of Women's March Cleveland and International Women's Day March Cleveland.
Other speakers include activist Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime and the Black Man's Army, Fatima Chuie of Peace in the Hood and the Task Force for Community Mobilization, Princess Mapp Moore of Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children Before and After School, and Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade.
"Our family will continue to participate in rallies to remember the victims and to work to bring their killer or killers to justice and we thank Kathy Wray Coleman and other community activists, and the media, for keeping this issue alive" said Angelique Malone, a daughter of murder victim Christine Malone, who left behind eight grown children.
Angelique Malone said "we want our mother's killer found and brought to justice."
Hasan, 37, was murdered in December of 2012, Malone, 45, and Trotter, 20, both in March of 2013, Leszyeski, 21, in May of 2013, and DeFreeze, a teenager, in January of 2017.
Leszyeski, who was White and resided on the city's West Side, her body discovered in a vacant field with her hand cut off.
Alianna was 14-years-old at the time of her murder by previously convicted sex predator Christopher Whitaker, who was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death this time last year by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Judge Carolyn Friedland, remains at large.
The bodies of Trotter and DeFreeze were discovered at abandoned homes.
Hasan was stabbed 17 times in an east side apartment.
Affiliated greater Cleveland activist groups relative to the upcoming rally and vigil include Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland, the Laura Cowan Foundation, International Women's Day March Cleveland,Clevelandurbannews.com, Black Man's Army, Kathywraycolemanonlinenews blog.com, Find Our Children-The Missing- Ebony Alert, Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children's Safety, Peace in the Hood, Black on Black Crime Inc, Black Man's Army, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the People's Forum, the Task Force for Community Mobilization, and the Carl Stokes Brigade.
Community activists and the murder victims families want answers as to the city's assertiveness, or lack thereof, in finding the killer or killers and an update from city officials on cold cases regarding murdered and raped women and girls, Black and poor women and girls in particular.
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.
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