The men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter and the Alpha Foundation of Howard County recently held the 48th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in honor of the late civil rights leader.

The event was held at Martin’s West on Jan. 8, and featured remarks from Gov.-Elect Wes Moore, Vic Carter, of WJZ, and keynote speaker Pierre Thomas, a senior justice correspondent from ABC.

  • Councilman Opel Jones, of District Two in Howard County, speaks to those gathered at Martin’s West for the prayer breakfast.
  • Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and WJZ’s Vic Carter pray for Gov.- Elect Wes Moore with Rev. Ricky Harvey and Dennis Kemp Sr
  • Vic Carter
  • Kerry G. Johnson, serves as vice president of Alpha Phi Alpha’s Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter.
  • Howard County Executive Calvin Ball
  • David l. Campbell, past Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter president, with his wife, Marlene.
  • Harry Evans and Cleveland Smith, shown here with Sen. Charlie Sydnor III (D-Md.), of District 44
  • Autumn and Bryson Joiner with Joy Stevenson
  • Gov.-Elect Wes Moore, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, addresses the audience

Alpha men from across the D.C., Maryland and Virginia (DMV) area were in attendance, to include Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and Councilman Opel Jones, of Howard County’s District Two.

King pledged Alpha Phi Alpha’s Sigma Chapter while in graduate school at Boston University in June 1952.

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