By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The public is invited to speak today, Sept. 18 at the regular meeting of the Cleveland NAACP, which will be held from 6pm to 8pm at the church of Bishop E. F. Perry, The Cathedral Church of God in Christ, 2940 Martin Luther King Drive in Cleveland.

"There will be a segment for the public to speak and we invite everybody to this meeting," said Arlene Anderson, executive director of the local Civil Rights branch, which is also led by Cleveland area attorney James Hardiman, the president of the organization.

Community activist groups and poor people previously denied entrance to meetings to seek help under former president George L. Forbes and ousted executive director Stanley Miller said that they are pleased that the public can now speak.

"We look forward to tonight's meeting and will ask for help on issues such as missing children, foreclosure fraud, the unconstitutional public schools funding formula by the Ohio state legislature, and the disparities in sentencing against Blacks by the majority White judges of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas where felony cases and other matters are heard," said Kathy Wray Coleman, Leader of The Imperial Women and The Imperial Women Coalition, and the publisher and associate editor of Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's most read Black and urban online newspaper.

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