Brookland MS student wins third place in McClellan's Black History Month Essay Contest
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Brookland Middle School student Ari Mallory was a third-place winner in U.S. Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan’s second-annual Black History Month Essay Contest.
McClellan hosts the competition to educate and increase awareness of significant Black figures in history.
“As Black History Month comes to a close, I was touched to read these essays, honoring fearless Black leaders who brought diverse voices to our nation’s military and had a connection to,” McClellan said. “Congratulations to the essay contest winners, and thank you to all the middle and high school students who participated for the depth and thoughtfulness of each of your submissions.”
Students wrote essays on the namesakes of Fort Gregg-Adams in Virginia’s Fourth District. General Arthur J. Gregg was the first Black Army officer to become lieutenant general, and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley became the highest-ranking Black woman in the U.S. Army by the end of World War II. While high-schoolers focused on the legacy of Gregg, middle school students, like Mallory, wrote about Earley.
The top three essays from the middle and high school divisions received state-wide recognition, and the first-place essays by Tanvi Palavalas (a student at Maggie Walker Governor’s School) and Augustus Rezba-Patel (a student at Albert Hill Middle School) will be entered into the Congressional Record.
