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.

Cleveland,Ohio- The PowerHouse SA.R.C. will host its second annual "Getting Smart in the Park" community empowerment event on Saturday, July 6  beginning at noon in Luke Easter Park in Cleveland.

The keynote speaker is City of Cleveland Public Health Safety Director Karen Butler. Other speakers include Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright, Cleveland Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCauley, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, Cleveland Ward 1 Council Candidate Kimberly F. Brown and Community Activist and CNN Hero Laura Cowan.

The PowerHouse S.A.R.C. is led by the husband-wife team of Pastors A.J. and Cheryl Thompson of the House of Prayer Ministries of Greater Cleveland.

"We invite the community to join us to hear the speakers and for a day of food and fun in the park," said Pastor Cheryl Thompson.

Pictured are Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty and drunken DUI getting Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan (Below is a "Nigger" Name Calling Internet Poll composed by an empLoyee in the office of Cuyahog County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, and with his subsequent blessings where he and the employee, with the help of  Judge Corrigan, decided to harass Blacks that complained rather than to give the employee and other county employees sensitivity training.Community activists want "nigger" name calling county prosecutor's office employee Lily Miller fired and criminal charges of a potential hate crime since she coupled her "nigger" epithets with wanting Blacks hanged through old-time slave hangings). A study commissioned by the Cleveland NAACP found that Blacks are disproportionately prosecuted and receive harsher sentences than their White counterparts by the 34 majority White judges of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. But according to community activists, Black elected officials, some of whom endorsed McGinty for election as county prosecutor last year, and Black leaders will do nothing about it.

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 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 newspaper's publisher. Coleman, who now edits the successful Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspapers, holds a bachelor's degree in biology, two master's degrees, and straight A's in her master's programs and as a tuition paid doctoral student at the University of Akron. Coleman says that her parents, Drs. James M. and Gertrude Coleman, one of whom is deceased, taught Coleman and her siblings the importance of giving back to the community through various  measures including good faith community activism on behalf of those that lack the voice to fight against racism, sexism and the disenfranchisement of poor people and children.

Read the below "Nigger" Name Calling Poll By Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Employee Lily Miller, who repeatedly calls Blacks nigger on the Internet and via email, coupled with Internet writings that say that Blacks like former CMHA Executive Director George Phillips Oliver should be hanged and to "hang him high."

Data show that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a Democrat and former common pleas judge, allegedly uses corrupt judges like drunken DUI getting Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrrigan to harass Blacks that complain about being called nigger and about the threat of a slave-type hanging of Blacks by county prosecutor's office employees like Miller. Corrigan, who was found guilty of DUI earlier this year, is also a Democrat.

The Ohio Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility precludes Corrigan from remaining on cases filed by employees of his current friend and previous judicial colleague Tim McGinty, but Corrigan has allegedly become obsessed with getting Blacks back that want agree to be called nigger and hanged like slaves by nooses from a tree, all at Miller's demand.

The alleged harassment, say community activists, is partly in response to complaints against excessive force by Cleveland police, and against county officials, the sheriff's office, and common pleas judges around foreclosure fraud, and other impropriety. McGinty was endorsed for county prosecutor by the Cleveland police union, who contributed to his campaign last year, and he refuses to present data to a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for a possible indictment of police responsible for gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell late last year with 137 bullets. A police supervisor and one police officer were fired relative to the incident  with suspensions for some others, none of whom were Black. And of the 13 all non-Black policemen that killed Williams and Russell, all but one have been reinstated to regular duty.

An uneducated and vindictive liar of a trashy-type, manly looking White woman who works for McGinty in the child enforcement division doing who knows what and who has said allegedly that the county prosecutor has condoned her actions, Miller has allegedly bragged that she can call Blacks nigger all day long and demand they be hanged like slaves and that McGinty and Judge Peter Corrigan, a close friend to the county prosecutor, will protect her and will destroy all Blacks that complain about the insensitive racial slurs she makes. An investigation by  Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper, reveals that the county prosecutor's office as a whole is potentially behind the nigger name calling issue and Miller's racially insensitive "nigger" name calling poll. What is true, for sure, is that the office has condoned the Paula Deen-type racial harassment and that Miller has carte blanche from her boss McGinty to repeatedly call Blacks "nigger."

Community activists are calling the nigger name calling coupled with the threat of hanging Blacks a hate crime and have urged McGinty to present data to a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for potential indictment on criminal charges against Miller and others.

LILY MILLER "NIGGER" NAME CALLING 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)

From The Metro Desk Of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson kicked off his reelection campaign on Saturday afternoon at his campaign headquarters on Prospect Ave flanked by some key Black elected officials including Councilman Jeff Johnson and state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25), who also spoke, and who introduced the Black mayor earlier that day before he won the endorsement from the powerful Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.

The two term mayor says that he has earned four more years.

"Four more years," Jackson said to chants to a crowd of supporters at his campaign headquarters.

Turner is out front lately after agreeing to forgo reelection to her state senate seat to run for Ohio Secretary of State next year against Republican Jon Husted, and on the Democratic ticket with Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, who announced earlier this year that he will run for Ohio governor in 2014 against incumbent Republican Gov. John Kasich.

Jackson spoke on his political platform and promised to spur economic growth for the largely Black major American city, and he said he would increase safety, retain jobs, enhance educational outcomes for students of the city schools that he controls under state law, and prioritize senior citizens, among other promises.

He is the city's 56th mayor and the third Black behind  Carl B. Stokes and Michael R. White, the city's longest serving mayor

White served three terms and bowed out to Jane Campbell, who did one four year term before Jackson, then city council president, ousted her in 2005.

Millionaire businessman Ken Lanci, also a Democrat, is Jackson's only opponent for a non-partisan November general election, and  for what would have been a September 10 non-partisan primary had others interested been able to secure the 3,000 petition signatures by Thursday afternoon necessary to make the ballot.

The city charter has no limit on how many terms a mayor or city council member can serve

Both Lanci, 63, and Jackson, 67, vied for the county Democratic Party endorsement and gave speeches at its endorsement meeting on Saturday morning. And few were surprised that Jackson, a seasoned campaigner who was councilman for Ward 5 on the city's majority Black east side before winning the mayor-ship, won by getting more yeas from executive committee members in attendance.

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

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The family and friends of slain 27-year-old Daniel Ficker, who left behind two young children and a fiance, will host a fundraiser for his children and a memorial to remember him as the second anniversary of his July 4, 2011 death by Cleveland police that occurred outside of his home in Parma, Oh. nears.

Parma is a middle-class suburb of Cuyahoga County that is some 15 miles south of Cleveland.

The event will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at Coe Lake behind Berea Commons from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm in Berea, Ohio, a suburb some 20 miles south of Cleveland.

Tickets for the fundraiser for Ficker's two small children are $10 and the Breakfast Club Band will perform. Children get in free, organizers told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper.

For more information contact Ficker's mother, Bernadette Rolen, by phone at 1-440-773-6103 or by email at bern316@cox.net For donations in general go to www.danficker143.com .

Rolen said that the memorial is just that, a memorial fundraiser to raise money for Ficker's children and to remember her son, one of two children, she said. She said that the event is not a rally and that her grandchildren by Daniel Ficker are what friends and other family members said that they are hosting the event for.

"The memorial is to remember Dan and to raise money for his two children," said Rolen.