CLEVELAND, Ohio- The

Cleveland Chapter NAACP will entertain a discussion by community activists and affiliated victims or their family members at its general membership meeting at 7:30 pm tonight, April 14, 2014 at the University Circle United Methodist Church where regular meeting are held at 1919 E. 107th St and Chester Avenue in Cleveland. Issues include the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell,  housing discrimination, foreclosures, abandoned homes, the rape and murder of greater Cleveland women, and police complacency, ineptness and brutality against the Black community, women and others. The open-to-the-public meeting in which all community members are invited to attend will include activists speakers of retired Plain Dealer Reporter Dick Peery, Vickie Trotter, and Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition. For more information call the Cleveland Chapter NAACP at 216-231-6260 and the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473

The Cleveland NAACP is led by the Rev Hilton Smith, an associate minister at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland and a communications relations vice president for Turner Construction Company in Cleveland. Sheila Wright is the local chapter's executive director.

Participating grassroots activists groups or some of their group members include the the Imperial Women Coalition, the Imperial Women Activists Group, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Communities United, the Cleveland African-American Museum, Sister to Sister, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, People for the Imperial Act, and the Fairfax Business Association.

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