Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards Reaches 20 Years

For two decades, thousands of high school and college students have put their personal experiences with discrimination in the spotlight as participants in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards at Carnegie Mellon University. What started as a small contest for a few Pittsburgh public high schools has expanded into a program that reaches hundreds of students across western Pennsylvania every year. The scope of the awards continues to expand. This year, a record number schools were represented: 21 high schools and eight colleges and universities. During fall 2017, an anthology, " Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards at Carnegie Mellon University ," was published by CMU Press.