The new civil-rights movement involves bridging the gap in technology, something that will be the major theme of this month's 16th annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, organizers said yesterday.
Social media and digital inclusion will be the focus of this year's event, which is expected to draw a record 75,000 volunteers to more than 1,200 community-service projects on Jan. 17, the 25th anniversary of the King federal holiday.
"If Dr. King were here today he would see that 41 percent of all Philadelphians don't have any access to the Internet," Todd Bernstein, founder and director of the event, said at a news conference yesterday at Girard College. "[King] would see the digital divide which has shuttered out many, particularly people of color and from lower-income communities."
