1. Winning Entries 2015 “What Would MLK Say Today?” Poster Contest

2. Todd Ayoung First Place Adults Although 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.

3. Ana Goldsmith Second Place Adults In the wake of current events of police killings of black men. I think MLK would say, “Black Lives Matter!”

4. Christopher T. and Steve S. First Place Teens In 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.

5. Brianna Hicks Second Place Teens What 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.

6. Alexandra Gibbons Third Place Teens The 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.

7. Maeve Creagan Honorable Mention Teens Internally 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 what’s on the outside.

8. Terrell J. Honorable Mention Teens When 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.

9. 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 Quinonez First Place Youth

10. Keya Amundsen and Cedar Hermanet Second Place Youth We 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.”

11. Makya Wood Third Place Youth I 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.

12. Tobey Maines, Ruby Ewing, and Andy Biehn Honorable Mention Youth Martin Luther King Jr. would be saying to keep protesting peacefully to make the world a better place.

13. Desislava Furber Honorable Mention Youth MLK 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!)

14. Chayton Hart, Antonio Arambulo,and Jesse Rinzei First Place Children Life is impossible without friends and family. Don’t give up on people you care about Only when we band together can we overcome obstacles.

15. Anna Kalnins and Grace Gochicoa-Graberth Second Place Children He would say no war stuff

16. Andrew Kaiser, Xander Black, and Maxwell Owens Third Place Children This 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.

17. Riva Bhanushali Honorable Mention Children MLK 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.

18. Tanner Kratil Honorable Mention Children No Jail No War No Guns Love Peace

19. Contest Facts There were 289 total entries to the contest 372 artists between the ages of 5 and 42 participated Teachers and students from 8 schools participated Artists participated from 2 juvenile detention centers