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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 and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio |
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CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who
is the leader of the political and religious organization called the Nation of Islam, and is famous internationally for organizing the Million Man March in Washington DC in 1995 will speak in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, Sept. 3 at a free and open-to-the public event at 7 pm at Second Ebenezer Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side at 1881 East 71st Street. Doors open at 6 pm. Call (216) 772-7969 for more information.
Organizers said yesterday that people planning to attend should arrive early due to anticipated long entrance lines, and that Farrakhan's message, which is sure to be controversial, will address racial injustice and empowerment.
The speaking engagement precedes the 20th anniversary celebration march of the Million Man March, which will be led by Farrkahan and held in Washington, D.C. on October 10, and comes on the heels of national unrest relative to police killings of unarmed Blacks across America, both men and women, and boys. They include Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York City, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, and Sandra Bland in Prarie View Texas.
The speaking engagement precedes the 20th anniversary celebration march of the Million Man March, which will be led by Farrkahan and held in Washington, D.C. on October 10, and comes on the heels of national unrest relative to police killings of unarmed Blacks across America, both men and women, and boys. They include Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York City, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, and Sandra Bland in Prarie View Texas.
Cleveland police killings of unarmed Black people at issue include 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both Russell and Williams of whom were unceremoniously gunned down in 2012 by 13-non-Black cops slinging 137 bullets.
Cleveland city officials agreed this summer to a settlement on a court-monitored consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which follows its report of systemic problems in the largely White Cleveland Police Department, including illegal excessive force fatal shootings, tasing of innocent women and children, and gross mistreatment of the mentally ill. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
