Mamie Till awards are given to Cleveland activists (from left) Mariah Crenshaw, Latonya Goldsby of Black Lives Matter, Betty Mahone and Donna Walker Brown, Crenshaw saying to the establishment in her acceptance speech that "we will fight you in the streets and take you down before you take everything that belongs to us.".....Walker Brown called Mamie Till, the late mother of famously lynched teen Emmett Till, her hero....Cassandra McDonald of the Euclid NAACP was the keynote speaker and Cherima Chungag, who leads the Black Women's Center, and Mikki Smith were the mistresses of ceremonies....The event was produced by activist Genevieve Mitchell and sponsored by the Black Women's Center in cooperation with the Cleveland African-American Museum....Others involved include activists David and Marva Patterson, Karen Abdul Nafi, Art McKoy, and Frances Caldwell of the African-American Museum, and Pastor Barbara Elkins...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

From left: Greater Cleveland activists Mariah Crenshaw of East Cleveland, Latonya Goldsby of Black Lives Matter Cleveland, Betty Mahone of the Black Women's Federation and Donna Walker Brown of the Republican Inner City Movement of Cleveland pose at an event on Aug 28 at the African-American Museum on Crawford Road in Cleveland as recipients of the  Mamie Till Community Memorial and Courage Award

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland activists Donna Walker Brown, Mariah Crenshaw, Betty Mahone and Latonya Goldsby of Black Lives Matter Cleveland were honorees of the Mamie Till Community Memorial and Courage Award at an event Tuesday evening at the African American Museum on Crawford Road on Cleveland's east side. 

Each award recipient was also presented with a a bouquet of three red roses. 

Produced by community activist Genevieve Mitchell, the event, which activists say will be annual, was free and open-to-the-public, and was sponsored by the museum and its executive director, Frances Caldwell, in cooperation with the Black Women's Center, an arm of the museum.

"We will fight you in the streets and take you down before you take everything that belongs to us," said Crenshaw in her acceptance speech as she took on the establishment. "We contributed to this country with our blood, our sweat, our tears, and our children."

The late Emmett Till

Award recipient Donna Walker  Brown and
community activist Art McKoy of Black
on Black Crime Inc.

Walker Brown, head of the Republican Inner city Movement of Cleveland, told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.comthat receiving the Mamie Till award was an exceptional honor since Till, a young African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of flirting with a White woman in her family's grocery store, lost his life because of racism, White supremacy and bigotry.

The late Mamie Till

"Ms. Till was my hero," said Walker Brown in highlighting the fight by Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till, for justice for her young son. 

The keynote speaker was Cassandra McDonald, a community activist and president and executive director of the Euclid NAACP. 

Cassandra McDonald

McDonald, who has a law degree, outlined the Till case to the audience and said that to this day Blacks rarely receive justice for the arbitrary "taking of their lives."

Cherima Chungag, who leads the Black Women's Center, and Mikki Smith were the mistresses of ceremonies. 

Pastor Barbara Elkins did the prayer and Karen Abdul Nafi of Black Lives Matter Cleveland also spoke.

From left: Cleveland African-American Museum Executive Director Frances Caldwell and activists Mariah Crenshaw, Latonya Goldsby, Art McKoy, Betty Mahone, Donna Walker Brown and Genevieve Mitchell

Activist groups associated with the gathering include the Euclid NAACP,  Carl Stokes Brigade, with its vice president, David Patterson, also making a presentation, Black on Black Crime Inc and its founder Art McKoy, Black Man's Army,  Black Women's Federation, the Cleveland Peace Makers, and the Inner City Republican Movement of Cleveland 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.