Tickets Available for the 42nd Dr. MLK Jr. Memorial Breakfast

Apostle Craig Norvain Coates, Ph.D., will deliver the keynote address at this year’s
42nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 16,
at the La Fontaine Bleue, 7514 Ritchie Highway, in Glen Burnie.

The theme of this year’s annual breakfast, organized by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Breakfast Committee, is, “We will remember not the words of our enemies but the
silence of our friends.” Doors open and food is available at 7:30 a.m., with
the program beginning promptly at 8 a.m.

Tickets cost $50 at Eventbrite.

The following awards will be presented to community members for their work in
carrying out King’s legacy.

2023 Honorees

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award

Selected and presented by the Human Relations Commission, City of Annapolis

Presented to Joshua Hatch

Dallas G. Pace Sr. Humanitarian Award

Selected and presented by the Anne Arundel County Human Relations Commission

Presented to Abbie Ellicott

Alan Hilliard Legum Humanitarian Award

Selected and presented by the Anne Arundel Coalition of Tenants Inc.

Presented to Faye Gaskin

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Zeitgeist Award

Selected and presented by Anne Arundel Community College

Presented to Kimberly Jackson and Winnie Shabazz

Leon H. White Clergy Memorial Award

Selected and presented by United Black Clergy of Anne Arundel County

Presented to Phillip G. Duncan

George H. Phelps Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award

Selected and presented by Anne Arundel County NAACP

Presented to Skye Bailey

Keynote speaker Apostle Coates is the senior pastor at Fresh Start Church in Glen
Burnie. He is a veteran pastor of 26 years, and founder and presiding prelate
for Triumphant Church Assemblies. Coates holds two doctoral degrees from the
North Carolina College of Theology and has acquired licensed pastoral counselor
and licensed temperament certificates from the National Christian Counselor
Association.

As an entrepreneur, he has established Modern Priest Wear Inc., the Annapolis bridal
store Craig Coates Couture and the former Annapolis My Brother’s Keeper
Barbershop. Coates launched Growth Matters Inc. a consulting business, serves
as the county’s first African American chair of the HIV Commission, is a newly
appointed commissioner for the City of Annapolis Housing Authority and chaplain
for the Annapolis Police Department.