MSEA’s 32 Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

MSEA hosted its 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on January 14th at BWI Hilton with special guests Jitu Brown, nationalu2026

Darryl Barnes, MSEA 2017 Community Service Award winner; MSEA President Betty Weller; Oreal Morsell, MSEA 2017 Community Service Award winner; Jitu Brown, keynote speaker; and MSEA Vice President Cheryl Bost.

MSEA hosted its 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on January 14th at BWI Hilton with special guests Jitu Brown, national director of the Justice Alliance, and winners of the MSEA co-sponsored Reginald F. Lewis Museum Juried High School Art Contest and MSEA’s community service awards.

Brown is a school activist and community organizer based in Chicago who founded the grassroots advocacy group Mid-South Education Association — a group of administrators, parents, educators, young people, and local school council members. He also successfully organized to stop several neighborhood school closings and helped find resources for neglected schools in low-income areas.

MSEA and Reginald F. Lewis Musseum Juried High School Art Contest Awards

MSEA and Reginald J. Lewis Museum High School Juried Art Contest 1st place winner Chinazam Ojukwu with Betty Weller and Cheryl Bost.

1st Place: Chinazam Ojukwu, McDonough High, Charles County

2nd Place: Tyshay Thomas, Baltimore School of the Arts, Baltimore City

3rd Place: Asrianna Simmons-El, Randallstown High, Baltimore County

4th Place: Andrew Dixon, Start Living Winters Mill High, Carroll County