Cleveland Urban News.Com Update from Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman (pictured)): Activists leaders or their representatives will meet today, July 10 at 5:30 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Ave, with Judge Sara J. Harper, the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, to develop strategy around the issues below we want addressed by the Cleveland NAACP and other community groups, and elected officials of consequence.
The meeting yesterday, July 9, with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright with community activists and family members of victims of rape, murder and police killings went well and drew some 150 people. Speakers at the gathering include Rev. Smith, Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, East Cleveland Council persons Barbara Thomas and Nate Martin, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, activists and victims family members.
The mother of Kenneth Smith (AKA Kenneth Ball), whom Cleveland police killed last year, and the family members of Cleveland rape and murder victim Christine Malone spoke.
The media advised that NAACP officials called them and said that they were not invited. Rev Smith noted that he would relay the below issues to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and that he has scheduled a meeting with Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty on his employees calling Blacks "niggers" and demanding that Blacks are "hanged high."
Activists will discuss with Judge Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge, whether disproportionate prosecutions against Blacks in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas as found via a study commissioned by the Cleveland NAACP and the below issues involving the county prosecutor's office are the result of a racially hostile climate detrimental to the Black community. For more information call Imperial Women at 216-659-0473).
Meetings With The Imperial Women, The Fairfax Business Association, The Cleveland African American Museum, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, Organize Ohio, The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, The Nation of Islam, The Carl Stokes Brigade, Revolution Books, The Urban Education Strategy Group, The Black Contractors Group, Ohio Family Rights, the National Organization for Parental Equality, the People's Forum, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network And Other Community Activist Groups With Cleveland NAACP Officials And Community Affiliates. (Reach Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper, at 216-659-0473 And Editor@Clevelandurbannews.com).
General requests by community activists today, July 9, 2013, with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev.Hilton Smith and Executive Director Shelia Wright and via the Feb. 4, 2013 meeting with Legal Redress Chairperson Attorney Una Keenon and Legal Redress Committee Member and ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman are as follows: The need to address the illegal and unconstitutional denial of attorneys to Blacks deemed indigent by judges of the Berea and Bedford municipal courts of Cuyahoga County and the malicious prosecutions of Blacks in Berea at the urging of Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, who handpicks visiting judges to send to courts throughout the state to allegedly harass Blacks, Democrats and her enemies;The need to address racial epithets via the n-word by employees of the Cuyahoga County prosecutors offices, who have also demanded that Blacks are hanged and to "hang him high;" The need for more resources relative to abduction, rape and murder of greater Cleveland women; The need to address the absence of any Blacks on the law enforcement leadership team of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson; The need for a mechanism for monitoring the successes and failures of Black children in the absence of a Cleveland schools desegregation court order; The support from the Cleveland NAACP in requesting felony murder charges against the group of Cleveland police officers, none of whom are Black, responsible for gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell; The support of area Black contractors for contracts, work and other amenities; An amendment of the state law (O.R.C. 2939.02) that permits common pleas judges to choose grand jury foremen and for the grand jury itself to choose, the latter of which is also permitted under the law; An amendment to the state law that gives welfare recipients, mainly poor women and children, three years for the subsidy when up to five years is permitted under federal law; The help for maliciously prosecuted Black woman Betty Simpson, who was exonerated relative to bogus criminal charges pushed by the county prosecutor of mortgage fraud, and the release of her daughter from prison around the issue where her daughter was convicted of similar criminal charges; An investigation of the foreclosure process in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and an amendment of the state law (O.R.C. 2329.17) that allows county sheriffs to appraise and sale foreclosed homes for cheap with the amended state law precluding participation by the sheriff and appraisals based upon the last legal county appraisal; The compliance by assistant county prosecutors in discontinuing the process of withholding discovery evidence against Black children prosecuted for alleged crimes in violation of federal law and the applicable rules of court; An investigation of the Cuyahoga County Department of Child and Family Services around the Emilliano Terry case where the murdered boy's 20 year old mother stands accused of his murder after her cries for help were ignored by the county agency; The compliance with the DeRolph decision handed down in 1997 by the Ohio Supreme Court that deemed Ohio's method of funding public education unconstitutional, or a sliding scale of student assessment by the Ohio Department of Education based upon how rich or how poor a school district might be; The support of a bill (Ohio House Bill 216) by state Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10) for Ohio trial court judges in multi-judge municipal and common pleas courts to at all times be assigned and reassigned to criminal and civil cases at random; A discussion with Cleveland NAACP officials and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Chief Judge Nancy Fuerst as to a study commissioned by the group that shows that the 34 majority White judges of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas where felony criminal cases and other matters are heard give harsher sentences to Blacks than their similarly situated White counterparts; An amendment of state law (O.R.C.2701.03) that gives the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court sole authority to decide if an Ohio trial common pleas court judge is removed from a case for bias or conflict and for the entire seven-member Ohio Supreme to decide; and, An amendment of state law (O. R.C. 2701.031) that gives the chief judge of the county common pleas court sole authority to decide if an Ohio municipal court is removed from a case for bias or conflict and for a panel of judges to decide coupled with the statutory right to appeal the decision to a state appellate court.
Community activists are calling the "nigger" name calling by White Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office employees coupled with the threat of hanging Blacks a hate crime and have urged Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to present data to a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for potential indictment on criminal charges against employee Lily Miller and others, including Cuyahoga County Common Pleas DUI getting judge Peter Corrigan. Judge Corrigan is one of McGinty's close friends as McGinty is a former common pleas judge himself, and Corrigan is accused of harassing Blacks that complained of the racially hostile activity for McGinty and county officials involved in alleged public corruption.
LILY MILLER "NIGGER" NAME CALLING INTERNET POLL BELOW
By Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office Employee Lily Miller
Is it ok for Tremont West employees or board members to refer to members of the community as stupid hillbillies or niggers?
08/23/2011 - 11:37
No. TWDC is a publicly funded corporation that is supposed to service the entire community.
20% (1 vote)
Yes. There are no laws against referring to certain community members as 'stupid hillbillies' or 'niggers'.
40% (2 votes)
No. This is clearly discrimination/racism and should not be allowed.
40% (2 votes)
Yes. It is what it is.
0% (0 votes)
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers 
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher.
