WT to celebrate MLK’s legacy with speech reenactment, scholarship contest WTAMU Newsroom CANYON — A live reenactment of the “I Have a Dream” speech and a video essay contest are among the ways West Texas A&M University will recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The holiday will be celebrated Jan. 18, and WT, like other schools in The Texas A&M University System, will be closed in remembrance of the civil rights leader. When classes resume on Jan. 19, students and other campus community members can listen to Julian Reese, head coach of the Amarillo Venom, deliver King’s famous speech at 12:30 p.m. in Legacy Hall inside the Jack B. Kelley Student Center.