Salem State University MLK Jr. Essay Contest Open To Witch City Students

SALEM, MA — Salem Public Schools students in elementary, middle and high school are invited to enter this year's Salem State University Center for Justice and Liberation Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest.

This year's theme for the annual contest is "Mission Possible II: Building Community, Uniting a Nation in a Nonviolent Way."

The Salem Human Rights Coalition is co-sponsoring the contest with a $100 prize for the winning essay in each category.

The submission deadline is Dec. 19 at 5 p.m.

Essay winners will be announced at the Center for Justice and Liberation 36th Annual MLK Luncheon on Jan. 26, at Veterans Memorial Hall in the Ellison Campus Center.

Last year’s essay winners were each from the Horace Mann Laboratory School: Emmanuel de la Cruz Urena, Erin Tafua and Johnny San, now sixth-graders at Collins Middle School. Rosely Mojica, then a fifth-grade student at Horace Mann, was named a runner-up.

For more information, contact Salem State’s Center for Justice and Liberation at CJL@salemstate.edu.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)