The Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship recognizes a ż junior who has demonstrated superior academic achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the African American community and African American issues both on and off campus.
Scholarship recipients
Date | Recipients | Speaker | News |
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2/19/24 | Julie Canuto-Depina | Dr. Philip McHarris ’14, Assistant Professor,Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, University of Rochester | ż News February 2024 |
2/21/23 | Maria “Christie” Louis | Dr.Alex L. Pieterse,Director, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Associate Professor,Lynch School of Education and Human Development | ż News February 2023 |
2/22/22 | Kudzai Kapurura | Dr. Donald Brown Ed.D., Founder & President of Brown & Associates Education and Diversity Consulting, and Director of ż's Office of AHANA Student Programs, 1978-2005 | ż News February 2022 |
2/16/21 | Latifat Odetunde | Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies, ż | ż News February 2021 |
2/6/20 | Shakalah Thompson | David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard University | ż News February 2020 |
2/19/19 | Thair Brown | Vincent Rougeau,Dean of ż Law School | ż News February 19, 2019 |
2/1/18 | Anthony Smith | L'Merchie Frazier, Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston | ż News February 15, 2018 |
2/15/17 | Akosua Opokua-Achampong | Linda Dorcena Forry, Senator of Massachusetts representing the 1stSuffolk District | ż News February 15, 2017 |
2/16/16 | Chiamaka Okorie | Rev. Gregory Carl Chisholm, S.J., Pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo/Resurrection Chapel in the Archdiocese of New York | ż News February 24, 2016 |
2/17/15 | Cai Thomas | Valerie D. Lewis-Mosley ’79, Director of religious education at the Church of Christ the King in Jersey City, NJ and Vice President of the Social Justice Committee of Jersey City | ż Chronicle March 12, 2015 |
2/8/14 | Patience Marks | John H. Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education. | |
2/4/13 | Philip McHarris | Dr. Clayborne Carson, Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University | ż Chronicle February 14, 2013 |
2/10/12 | Sandra Dickson | Charles J. Ogletree, Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice | ż Chronicle February 16, 2012 |
2/15/11 | Angela Donkor | Rev. Dr. Evan C. Hines, ż Graduate '90 | ż Chronicle March 3, 2011 |
2/3/10 | Catherine Duarte | Settie Warren, Boston Colege Graduate '93, was President of the UGż and currently, first African American elected to the position of Mayor of the City of Newton Mass. | ż Chronicle February 24, 2010 |
2/11/09 | Gerrel Olivier | Walter C. Carrington, former Ambassador to Nigeria and to Senegal | ż Chronicle February 26, 2009 |
2/12/08 | Eric Asuo-Mante | Andrea J. Cabral '81, Sheriff of Suffolk County | |
2/13/07 | Jacqueline Grant | Stephen J. Pemberton '89, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Monster.com | ż Chronicle March 1, 2007 |
2/15/06 | Alexandria Bradshaw | Nancy E. Norman, Director, Boston Public Health Commission | |
2/23/05 | Chikaelo Ibeabucci | J. Keith Motley, Interim Chancellor, University of Massachusetts-Boston | Chikaelo Ibeabucci and Father Leahy |
2/17/04 | Helina Teklehaimanot | Rev. Allen Dwight Callahan, Baptist Minister and Former B.C. Theology Faculty Member, now in Brazil | ż Chronicle March 4, 2004 |
3/13/03 | Roderkick L. Carey | Rev. J. Glenn Murray, SJ., Director of the Diocese of Cleveland's Office for Pastoral Liturgy. | |
2/19/02 | Rufus L. Caine III | Reverend Calvin 0. Butts III, D. Min., Pastor Abyssinan Baptist Church, NY, NY | |
2/13/01 | Tiffany Griffin | Janet Helms, Professor, Counseling/Dev/Psych,Lynch School of Education | |
2/9/00 | Alvin Barnett | Rev. Michael Louis Pfleger, Pastor, Preacher, Parent, Lecturer, Activist | Alvin Barnett with Father Leahy |
2/9/99 | Saya Hillman | Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, Pastor, Betherl A.M.E. Church | |
2/11/98 | Alison Harriott | Joseph A. Brown, S.J., Author, Consultant, Lecturer | |
2/11/97 | Simeon Buresch | Rev. Michael Haynes, Pastor, Twelfth Baptist Church and friend of MLK | |
2/20/96 | Rizwan Jamal | Darcel Clark, First MLK Scholarship Recipient | Rizwan Jamal and Father Monan |
2/15/95 | Leonardine A. Pacombe | Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D., Eonomist, Author, Syndicated Columnist | |
2/2/94 | Okey Mbawuike | TBA | |
2/2/94 | Nancy Joseph | Ralph Wiley, Author, Journalist, Lecturer | |
2/10/93 | Sandra Jean-Louis | TBA | |
2/10/93 | Natasha Grigger | Delores E. Cross, Ph.D., President, Chicago State Univ. | ż Chronicle February 18, 1993 |
2/12/92 | Nique Henry | Julian Earls, Director, Health Services NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH | ż Chronicle February 18, 1993 |
2/11/91 | Lucia Thomas | Rev. Samuel Proctor, Pastor, Abyssinan Baptist Church, NY, NY | |
3/21/90 | Candace (Candi) N. Nichols | Rep. John Lewis, GA Representative, Civil rights activist | |
2/15/89 | Raymond Sykes | Mary Francis Berry, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner | Raymond Sykes Article |
2/22/88 | France Kevin Bowers | Marie Gadsen, Deputy Director, Nat'l Assn. Equal EmploymentOpportunity in Higher Ed., Oxfam America Bd. of Trustees | ż BiWeekly |
2/1/87 | No award given. Carlos Brito, Donna Graham, and Gaylord Taylor received special recognition | Lorraine Hale, Executive Dir., Hale House (a NYC center for drug-addicted infants) | ż Biweekly February 26, 1987 Gaylord Taylor Article |
2/24/86 | Maritza Skelton | Hassan Minor, Managing Director, The Corp. for Boston | Maritza Skelton Article |
2/25/85 | Maya Handwerk | Martin Luther King, III | Maya Handwerk Article |
2/1/84 | Francois Dumont | Rep. Saundra Graham, MA State Representative | Francois Dumont Article |
2/1/83 | Stephanye A. Redd | Robert Drinan, S.J., Former Congressman, ż Law School Dean, 1956-70 | ż Biweekly February 3, 1983 |
2/2/82 | Darcel Clark | Wayne Budd, Attorney, ż Bd. of Trustees | ż Biweekly February 4, 1982 |