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MLK event goes virtual Day of Service honors civil rights leader’s legacy at the White Rock Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960, to make the modern recMolloy Colle g e took its reation more accurate. Renner annual MLK Day of Service also did background research online on Monday, featuring on the speech, which is known ke y n o t e s p e a ke r D r. M a x for being King’s first to call for Renner and musical perfor- civil disobedience, but was not mances to honor recorded. t h e c iv i l r i g h t s North Carolina leader and continState and the ue conversations church’s congregaabout his legacy. tion teamed up to At 9:30 a.m., publicly recreate Renner, an assisthe speech on June tant professor of 8, 2014. Voice actor digital humanities Marvin Blanks capand new media at tured King’s singMolloy, led attendsong cadence and e e s t h ro u g h t h e powerful voice. The Vir tual MLK, or church no longer vMLK, Project. As operates today, but a doctoral student was rendered digiat North Carolina tally for the virtuState University in DR. MARTIN al-reality experi2014, Renner was of the speech, LUTHER KING JR. ence the research and placing viewers production team “ i n ” t h e fo r m e r lead for the project, building. which recreates one of King’s “Utilizing ad-vanced digital best-known speeches, “A Cre- and audio technologies, the ative Protest,” using advanced project offers a recreation of digital and audio technology Martin Luther King’s ‘A Crefor scholars and students. ative Protest’ speech, inviting As a doctoral candidate, audiences to experience the Renner collected information public address in a virtually from 10 people who attended the speech, which King made CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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A gala postponed The fifth annual Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition Gala originally scheduled for Jan. 21 has been postponed to March 11 as a precaution because of the coronavirus pandemic. Above, Linda Hubler and DJ Kev White got into the spirit at a previous event. Story, Page 4.
A push for ‘normal’ Red and Blue School officials mull options for March event By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Rockville Centre school officials are mulling how to safely host the 106th annual Red and Blue event while staying true to its traditions amid the unpredictability of the continuing coronavirus pandemic. Several students and parents voiced their opinions at the Jan. 13 Board of Education meeting, after school officials sent out a
tentative plan on Jan. 7 with many changes to the competition, including eliminating events that were deemed unsafe for students and cutting the event back from three days to one. Most who spoke at the meeting said they were unhappy about making Red and Blue a one-day event. Some were outraged. According to the South Side High School calendar, the original plan was to have a
Revue on March 3 and events on March 4 and 5, but school officials’ tentative plan is for a oneday competition on March 6. Board of Education President John O’Shea said that the plan was tentative, and would not be finalized until closer to the event. “As of right now … this board has not spoken about Red and Blue to the public or made any determination on how it’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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