The 2015 “Selma Speech and Essay” contest drew nearly 800 entries nationwide. Judges, including rapper Common, sifted through the submissions, whittling them down to the top three, who were honored today in a full scale celebration.
“I feel so blessed to be here and to receive this distinction,” said Rockaway, NJ tenth-grader Ifeoma White-Thorpe, who tied for first place and won $5,000, thanks to her stirring spoken-word essay about decreasing freedoms among young black young men following the shooting last year of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
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