NEW: In commencement address, philanthropist Robert Smith pledges $40,000,000 to clear Morehouse graduates' student debt.
Smith called the gift"a little fuel" for the 396 students who comprise the Morehouse Class of 2019.
"When Dr. King said that the 'arc of the moral universe bends toward justice,' he wasn't saying it bends on its own accord. It bends because we choose to put our shoulders into it together and push," Smith said, quoting civil rights icon Martin Luther King. "Technology is creating a whole new set of on-ramps to the 21st-century economy, and together we will help assure that African Americans will acquire the tech skills and be the beneficiaries in sectors that are being automated," Smith, 56, said during his address.
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