Community activists are calling for a social change inspired by the human rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr.

Glenn Fubler joined with representatives from Bermuda Is Love, the Chewstick Foundation and the Grateful Bread to hold dialogue that promotes healing and community spirit.

The organisations will screen a documentary film about Dr King followed by a discussion at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters on Wednesday.

The event comes ahead of the anniversary of a speech that Dr King gave on April 4, 1967, in which he called for a shift in values from material things to people.

Mr Fubler said: “We in Bermuda this week will be highlighting the spirit that Martin Luther King was providing for us to consider, to reflect on.

“On Wednesday at the BIU building we will be gathering, and in the first instance will reflect on a film of an interview by Professor Cornel West, who has done a book on Martin Luther King, and after that we will break out into a dialogue about that same spirit of renaissance that he was calling for during a dark time in the mid-Sixties.”

The event starts at 7pm.