Cleveland 19 TV news coverage of November, 2021 Imperial Avenue Murders anniversary rally by Imperial Women Coalition that was led by organizer and activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who called for an end to rape and murder of Black and poor women and accountability from public officials and policy makers.... Coverage by Cleveland 19 News Reporter Michelle Nicks
Title by Cleveland 19 News- Anti-violence rally held on Imperial Avenue calls for accountability
Published: Nov. 11, 2021 at 4:47 PM EST|Updated: 11 hours ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - On the memorial site of the Imperial Avenue murders, the Imperial Avenue Women’s Coalition is calling for accountability of the murders and for other instances of violence against women of color.
Organizer Kathy Wray Coleman demands a public summit to begin the conversation on stopping the violence against Black women, “This is the 12-year anniversary of the Imperial Avenue murders, which is October 29th, and Black women are still being raped and murdered in droves. We want a summit, public policy changes, and more police detectives dedicated to the cause because not enough is being done for Black women and poor women.”
According to the group, they say they are “tired of the racism and slackness” concerning (women of color) in leadership.
The site of the Imperial Avenue memorial is to remember the 11 people who were killed by serial killer Anthony Sowell and buried in his home and backyard during the late 2000′s. Sowell died in prison in February of 2021, and the memorial was unveiled in November.
The group is crying out for change because even after nearly one dozen women were murdered at the hands of Sowell, even more, violent and unthinkable crimes continue to rob Black women of their lives and their children of their mothers.
Angelique Malone says her mother, Christine Malone was one of at least four women murdered in the East 93rd Street cases, and those crimes, she says like many others, remain unsolved, “No one was caught in none of the four murders. They said it’s not the same person, but they haven’t caught anyone. We need someone to put something into action like city leaders vowed after the Imperial Avenue murders. They said they wanted to prevent it from happening again, but it happened again and again.”
The group accused Cleveland City leaders and others in neighboring communities of failing to protect Black women while throwing money behind other causes.
Just this week, the body of 22-year-old Alishah Pointer was found in an abandoned house in East Cleveland after she was kidnapped and tortured, “We call on New Mayor Mr. Bibb to step up and deal with this epidemic of violence against Black women and poor women,” Kathy Wray Coleman said.
(Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com note: Also at the above rally on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland on Nov 11, 2021 by the Imperial Women Coalition activists addressed the roughly $25,000 monument of the 11 Black murdered women murdered on Imperial Avenue recently put on Imperial Avenue by the Western Reserve Land Conservatory and demanded to know where the $500,000 collected for the monument by Matt Zone and the land conservatory went and are now investigating them for possible theft. Matt Zone, who is White, organized a ribbon cutting ceremony on Nov 6 on Imperial Avenue as to the monument and would not let Black activists and Black women who had been fighting for justice around the Imperial Avenue Murders for 12 years participate. Black Mt. Pleasant preachers were also told by Zone that they could not participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony, which activists called racist, and sexist).
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. 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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