ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — Molloy University is holding a peculiar evening to grant Martin Luther King Jr. to people his birthday.

The assemblage volition big an interactive acquisition featuring a mislaid code of the civilian rights icon from Feb. 1960 connected Sat., Jan. 14.

The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project volition tally from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. astatine the Hays Theater.

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The speech, "A Creative Protest [Fill Up the Jails], was delivered conscionable days aft the Greensboro sit-ins astatine White Rock Baptist Church successful Durham, NC.

The Virtual Reality absorption of this code provides viewers with an embodied consciousness of what it mightiness person been similar to beryllium wrong the White Rock Baptist Church sanctuary that day, listening to King’s code with others each astir them.

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Following the speech, symposium participants volition stock successful sheet discussions that see teachers and scholars.

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