Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship

Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship
1. Scholarship Application

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship recognizes a Boston College 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
2/22/22	Kudzai Kapurura	Dr. Donald Brown Ed.D., Founder & President of Brown & Associates Education and Diversity Consulting, and Director of BC's Office of AHANA Student Programs, 1978-2005	BC News February 2022
2/16/21	Latifat Odetunde	Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College	BC 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	BC News February 2020
2/19/19	Thair Brown	Vincent Rougeau, Dean of Boston College Law School	BC 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	BC News February 15, 2018
2/15/17	Akosua Opokua-Achampong	Linda Dorcena Forry, Senator of Massachusetts representing the 1^st Suffolk District	BC 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	BC 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	BC Chronicle March 12, 2015
2/8/14	Patience Marks	John H. Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education.	BC Chronicle February 25, 2014
2/4/13	Philip McHarris	Dr. Clayborne Carson, Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University	BC 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	BC Chronicle February 16, 2012
2/15/11	Angela Donkor	Rev. Dr. Evan C. Hines, Boston College Graduate '90	BC Chronicle March 3, 2011
2/3/10	Catherine Duarte	Settie Warren, Boston Colege Graduate '93, was President of the UGBC and currently, first African American elected to the position of Mayor of the City of Newton Mass.	BC Chronicle February 24, 2010
2/11/09	Gerrel Olivier	Walter C. Carrington, former Ambassador to Nigeria and to Senegal	BC 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	BC 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	BC 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.	BC Chronicle February 18, 1993
2/12/92	Nique Henry	Julian Earls, Director, Health Services NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH	BC 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 Employment Opportunity in Higher Ed., Oxfam America Bd. of Trustees	BC 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)	BC 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, Boston College Law School Dean, 1956-70	BC Biweekly February 3, 1983
2/2/82	Darcel Clark	Wayne Budd, Attorney, Boston College Bd. of Trustees	BC Biweekly February 4, 1982

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