HONOLULU (KHON2) – Tomorrow, January 15th, is the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and to celebrate this pioneering activist, the Honolulu Hawaii NAACP will be hosting a virtual event.
King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and 1960s before his tragic murder in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Tomorrow, the Honolulu Hawaii NAACP, with the help of the Honolulu African American Community Organizations, will host a virtual celebration showcasing King’s great work and talking about what still needs to be done.
The Honolulu Hawaii NAACP is a nonprofit organization that hosts these events annually and provides weekly black history to its Facebook followers.
The virtual event will take place tomorrow from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. with the keynote speech by Rev. Dr. John Giles and Entertainment by Mia Austin.
The organization said everyone is welcome to attend their virtual event and they look forward to sharing King’s words of wisdom with their community every day and especially on King’s birthday.
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The Meeting ID for Zoom is 9172491003 and the passcode is MLKDAY2022.
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