On Monday, January 21, The Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Office of Governor Granholm will host the second annual “Governor’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Youth Roundtable on Diversity and Michigan’s Future” at Schoolcraft College.

The event will begin at noon with an opportunity for more than 60 area high school and college students to interact with WXYZ-TV Channel 7 News Anchors Stephen Clark and Carolyn Clifford. Governor Jennifer Granholm and Department of Civil Rights Director Linda Parker will join the discussion at 1 p.m.

During the discussion the students, including about a dozen from Schoolcraft, will have the opportunity to discuss issues of concern including the social, racial and economic climate and the future of the state of Michigan. They will also dialogue about justice, educational issues, and what they believe are the necessary policies for making our state a better place to live.

This event is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public. It will be held in the DiPonio Room of the VisTaTech Center, which is located on the college’s Livonia Campus on Haggerty Road, between Six and Seven Mile Roads.