NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Vanderbilt University lecture series dedicated in 2003 and 2004 to examining the concepts of ownership of ideas, Internet ethics and the right of privacy will bring the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to campus to speak.
The Rev. Bernice King appears at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Langford Auditorium. She’ll speak on "Preserving the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
King began public speaking at 17, when she substituted for mother Corretta Scott King and addressed the United Nations on apartheid. She is a graduate of Spellman College, and earned Masters of Divinity and Doctorate of Law degrees from Emory University.
King is the assistant to the pastor at Greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta, and recently published her first book, Hard Questions, Heart Answers.
The speech is part of Vanderbilt’s Project Dialogue lecture series, which has been focused this year on "Ideas, Images, Internet: Who Owns What?" Previous speakers in the series include author Al Franken and Wayne Rosso, a former executive with the Grokster company, which provides software that enables the sharing of music on the Internet.
King’s speech is free and open to the public.
For more information on Project Dialogue, call 322-6400 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/dialogue.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
Jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu