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 |
| 听2/16/21听听 | Latifat Odetunde | Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College | BC News February 2021 |
| 听2/6/20听听 | Shakalah Thompson | David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard University | BC News February 2020 |
| 听2/19/19听听 | Thair Brown | Vincent Rougeau,听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 1st听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 鈥�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. | |
| 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 | 听 |
| 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 | 听 |
| 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. | 听 |
| 2/19/02 | Rufus L. Caine III | Reverend Calvin 0. Butts III, D. Min., Pastor Abyssinan Baptist Church, NY, NY | 听 |
| 2/13/01 | Tiffany Griffin | Janet Helms, Professor, Counseling/Dev/Psych,Lynch School of Education | 听 |
| 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 | 听 |
| 2/11/98 | Alison Harriott | Joseph A. Brown, S.J., Author, Consultant, Lecturer | 听 |
| 2/11/97 | Simeon Buresch | Rev. Michael Haynes, Pastor, Twelfth Baptist Church and friend of MLK | 听 |
| 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 | 听 |
| 2/2/94 | Okey Mbawuike | TBA | 听 |
| 2/2/94 | Nancy Joseph | Ralph Wiley, Author, Journalist, Lecturer | 听 |
| 2/10/93 | Sandra Jean-Louis | TBA | 听 |
| 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 | 听 |
| 3/21/90 | Candace (Candi) N. Nichols | Rep. John Lewis, GA Representative, Civil rights activist | 听 |
| 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听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 |
