UF and Morehouse College are teaming up to encourage college students to be more active in their communities on today's 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
James Oliverio, director of UF's Digital Worlds Institute, said the groups would host a month-long cultural exchange starting today in Atlanta at King's alma mater.
A webcast of each meeting will be shown every Friday in April. The first webcast in the series can be watched at 10 a.m. today at www.worldhouse.morehouse.edu.
"We want to inspire, invigorate and involve today's college students," Oliverio said.
Participants will discuss King's aims to overcome discrimination and spark student involvement with improving civil and social rights, he said.
"The 1960s was a time of great political and social upheaval, but I'm not so sure we have that same spirit in our own time," he said. "I want students to realize now is their 1960s."
