BALTIMORE -- For over 30 years, we have asked Maryland high school students to speak up and speak out in WJZ's Black History Oratory Competition. Lillian Green, the 2023 Oratory Competition Winner is ...

Forty-two years after proclaiming "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is being remembered by Houston elementary ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- What would Dr. King say to us today about hope for tomorrow? That was the prompt for a Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Contest for CPS 4th and 5th grade students. "The message I wanted ...

Paul Robeson (center), an All-American athlete, singer, actor and advocate for civil rights. Middle school students in Princeton, Lawrence and Mercer County will have a chance to show off their ...

Montoia Murray, a fifth-grade student at Blackshear Elementary, reacts after winning the Foley MLK Jr. Oratory Competition on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston. A group of Houston ISD students ...

The Jersey City Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Contest in honor of black history month took place at Jersey City Hall on Monday, February 26, 2024. Kids in grades 3 - 5 competed in the ...

Speech competition honors legacy of late civil rights leader ahead of Inauguration Day DALLAS & HOUSTON & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The voices of tomorrow resonated with hope and inspiration today as ...

HOUSTON — The annual MLK Oratory competition crowned a winner Friday. And for the first time, the winner is a repeat. Montoia Murray, 10, took home first place again. She beat out 150 other HISD ...

Dozens of students from across the state submitted their essays to WJZ's Black History Competition, and last week, 20 finalists read to a panel of judges and an audience of family and friends. The ...

HOUSTON — This year, first-place honors for Houston's 28th Annual MLK Jr. Oratory Competition went to an impassioned student of Houston ISD's Blackshear Elementary. Montoia Murray was seemingly ...

SANTEE, S.C. (WCIV) — The Orangeburg County School District (OCSD) announced Tuesday details of its third annualDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Competition. This year's event, with the theme ...

Chicago Mayor's Youth Commission volunteers Elyani Martinez, right, and Addison Haywood pack apples in bags during an MLK Day of Service event at the Greater Chicago Food Depository in Archer Heights ...