Molloy University Host MLK Virtual Experience

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — Molloy University is holding a special evening to honor Martin Luther King Jr. to mark his birthday.

The college will host an interactive experience featuring a lost speech of the civil rights icon from Feb. 1960 on Sat., Jan. 14.

The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hays Theater.

The speech, "A Creative Protest [Fill Up the Jails], was delivered just days after the Greensboro sit-ins at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC.

The Virtual Reality reaction of this speech provides viewers with an embodied sense of what it might have been like to be inside the White Rock Baptist Church sanctuary that day, listening to King’s speech with others all around them.

Following the speech, symposium participants will share in panel discussions that include teachers and scholars.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.