Chicago elementary students honor MLK, share his lessons in oratory competition

Source WBEZ
Original Load Date Jan. 19, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Last Updated Jan. 19, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Original URL https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/01/19/chicago-elementary-students-honor-mlk-share-his-lessons-in-oratory-competition

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Alanna Atwood, a fifth grader at Wendell Smith Elementary, thinks Martin Luther King would tell us today to use our words before resorting to violence. “We shouldn’t be using any weapons or anything because weapons can cause a lot of things, it can cause injuries and more things like that, and we d...