What Would MLK Say Today? Poster Contest

Winning Entries 2015What Would MLK Say Today?Poster Contest

Todd AyoungFirst PlaceAdultsAlthough Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in1968, his spirit lives on in hearts and minds of all who continue his mission for social justice and equality. My sketch, done in ballpoint pen, is an attempt to capture an image of King with his spirit intact, beneath a contemporary signifier or call to action in response to the continued senseless killings of 21st Century black men. My ball point pen King is determined to join contemporary forces for racial and social justice. He knows how much we need to keep acting and dreaming and just how far we still have to go.

Ana GoldsmithSecond PlaceAdultsIn the wake of current events of police killings of black men. I think MLK would say, Black Lives Matter!

Christopher T. and Steve S.First PlaceTeensIn light of current events the encouragement from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is greatly needed. To do the right thing is truly the business of being successful human beings.

Brianna HicksSecond PlaceTeensWhat would MLK Say today? Good question. MLK would ask and answer, Is this what I fought for? No, I fought for peace and justice for all, not just some. You must change your mentality, in order to change yourself, so that you can change this nation.

Alexandra GibbonsThird PlaceTeensThe message of my poster is about the racial profiling that African Americans are affected by today. Many cases of unneeded police brutality have been protested recently. I think that MLK said some things very relevant to these cases. For example, I put on my poster We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. I think that people of all races should raise their voices about what is happening, because we need to stand side by side in order to help overcome racial profiling in America.

Maeve CreaganHonorable MentionTeensInternally everyone is the same, and our mind and heart should be tied together as one. What we know is right in our heart and mind can conflict; but MLK would want everyone to come together no matter whats on the outside.

Terrell J.Honorable MentionTeensWhen I was a little kid I always had a dream to become famous, but it never became true; I had a dream too but it never came true.

MLK would say The world will always have a dream. This poster represents all the dreams in the world that have been completed or in progress. We think the planet is important and that MLK would think so to. He knew all people were equal, he also knew that we should love each other more than phones. We think this poster really shows what he would have thought about the world.

Eva Kiely and Scarlet QuinonezFirst PlaceYouth

Keya Amundsen and Cedar HermanetSecond PlaceYouthWe think he would say as he is riding pass the Haudonosaunee tree of peace:I have been reincarnated as a horse as I have not stopped moving forward. I hope Everyone keeps moving forward with my dream.

Makya WoodThird PlaceYouthI think MLK would say fighting must stop and let all of us have freedom and HOPE. People with different skin color, religion or what ever you can think, every thing and every body matters. With out justice or peace all of us would be hating each other. Everybody has knowledge and should be proud of that.

Tobey Maines, Ruby Ewing, and Andy BiehnHonorable MentionYouthMartin Luther King Jr. would be saying to keep protesting peacefully to make the world a better place.

Desislava FurberHonorable MentionYouthMLK would say, My dream helped a lot but SOME THINGS COULD USE CHANGE! (What is this? We have a war on terrorism?! All this pollution will end with a mass extinction!)

Chayton Hart, Antonio Arambulo,and Jesse RinzeiFirst PlaceChildrenLife is impossible without friends and family.Dont give up on people you care aboutOnly when we band together can we overcome obstacles.

Anna Kalnins and Grace Gochicoa-GraberthSecond PlaceChildrenHe would say no war stuff

Andrew Kaiser, Xander Black, and Maxwell OwensThird PlaceChildrenThis is what MLK Jr. would say: peace, friendship, happiness, No wars, no Guns, etc. It shows a 3D rubic cube with one of the sides having words that MLK Jr. would say.

Riva BhanushaliHonorable MentionChildrenMLK made the wrld betr. It is vere nice of him. He mab be dead but all that matrs we going to get together. We have luve in each other. We are nise and peaceful now.

Tanner KratilHonorable MentionChildrenNo JailNo War No GunsLovePeace

Contest FactsThere were 289 total entries to the contest372 artists between the ages of 5 and 42 participatedTeachers and students from 8 schools participatedArtists participated from 2 juvenile detention centers