By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper

CLEVELAND,Ohio-Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed will host a forum in response to the recent rape and murders of two Black women on Cleveland's east side and the attempted abduction of a third woman on Tuesday, April 9 at 6 pm at the E Prep Woodland Hills Campus, 929 Crane Ave. near E. 93rd St. and Union Ave. in Cleveland. Panelists include Cleveland Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCaulley, and a representative from the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.

For more information contact Councilman Reed at 216-664-4945.

Jazmine Trotter, 20, was raped and murdered last week at an abandoned house at E. 93rd St and Prince Ave. in Cleveland, a mile from the site  at E. 93 St. and Bessemer Ave. where Christine  Malone, 45, was  raped and murdered, also last week. An abduction attempt last week of of a third  Black woman at E. 66th St. has Black elected officials, family members of the victims and community activists upset too.

The aforementioned rape and murders come on the heels of the celebrated rape and murders of 11 Black women at the Imperial Ave. home of since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 by a Cuyahoga County jury on 82 of 83 counts, including aggravated murder. Sowell's convictions, including the death penalty, are on appeal before the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community activists will hold a 6 pm to 6 am camp-out at the corner of E. 93rd St and Prince Ave. on Cleveland's east side near the site where Jazmine Trotter, 20 (pictured), was raped and murdered last week at an abandoned house,  which is a mile from the site  at E. 93 St. and Bessemer Ave. where Christine  Malon (pictured), 45, was  raped and murdered, also last week. An abduction attempt last week of of a third  Black woman at E. 66th St. has community activists upset too.

Sponsoring groups include Survivors/Victims Of Tragedy, The Imperial Women and  Black on Black Crime Inc. For more information contact Judy Martin at 216-990-0679, Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-659-0473 or Art McKoy at 216-253-4070.

Activists will also hold a press conference at 7:30 pm at the camping site to to bring awareness to violence against women, Black women in particular, since data show that they are targeted at a higher rate than any other ethic group in Cleveland, including the unprecedented rape and murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Ave.

Those women were the victims of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, 52, whose 2011 convictions, including the death penalty, are on appeal.

City officials cannot confirm that a serial killer is not on the lose because only one suspect is in custody. And community activists say that since city officials and police had Sowell in custody in 2008 and released him to murder the last of he 11 Imperial Ave,. they do not trust Cleveland police to again try to mislead the community, whether deliberate or through negligence and incompetence.

Jerome Olgletree, a suspect in Totter's murder, has been charged with aggravated murder and will be arraigned on April 5.

At a press conference earlier today Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath, who was chief when the 11 Imperial Ave. victims were murdered, said the murders are unrelated while flanked by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson , who is up for reelection this year as he was when the Imperial Ave. bodies were found at Sowell's Imperial Ave. home in October  2009.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activists will protest today, April 4, at 5 pm on Public Square in downtown Cleveland over fatal police shootings, including the shooting deaths late last year by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Wiliams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43 (pictured), both gunned down with a hail of some 137 bullets following a police chase from downtown Cleveland that ended near a middle school in the neighboring city of East Cleveland.

The rally will also address other victims of violence in Greater Cleveland, organizers said. For more information contact Khalid Samad at 216-538-4043 or Griot Y-Von at 216-355-3374.

Some 65 police cars were involved in a 28 minute police chase with 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers participating in the deadly shooting.

Criminal charges, if any, have not yet been filed against the officers, all of whom are on light duty with pay.

"We are going to keep  this atrocity of Tim and Malissa in the public because we have a tendency to forget," said Abdul Qahhar, chairman of The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party.

Khalid Samad, leader of Peace in the Hood and the Task Force for Community Mobilization, said that he will lead the protest that includes other grassroots community organizations such as Black on Black Crime, The People's Forum, The Audacity of Hope Foundation, The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network and The Imperial Women.

"This rally is to stop the madness and to stop the murders because what happen to Tim and Malissa is madness," said Samad, a longtime community activist.

At a meeting of Black on Black Crime held Wednesday night community activists, who attended the meeting in droves along with family members of Williams,  were upset and said that the killings must stop.

"We support the rally and I will be there," said Art McKoy, founder of Black on Black Crime.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com

CLEVELAND,Ohio- The redistricting map that Cleveland City Council approved last week that drops council wards from 19 to 17 seats based on declining population pits popular Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson (pictured) and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, both of whom are Black, against each other in city council races this year with their two wards combined into a newly established Ward 9. And not one White councilperson is largely impacted by the remapping, though the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland is roughly 58 percent Black, and only 37 percent White.

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