Winston-Salem Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Psi Phi Chapter brothers went shopping on Saturday, Nov. 20, to purchase Thanksgiving groceries for 25 families. The brothers, wearing their finest purple and gold and with shopping list in hand, set out to Harris Teeter to purchase the groceries for the Thanksgiving Day dinner.
For the past three years Chrissy Faison, owner and CEO of LeanBack Soul Food, a local catering business, has marked the start of the holiday season with her LeanBack Giveback Thanksgiving Affair, and this year the event was bigger than ever.
Hope Dealers Outreach (HDO) is accepting donations for a Thanksgiving dinner giveaway to be held on Nov. 20 at the Skyline Apartment complex. They are hoping for donations of canned food, turkeys, hams and cases of water, said Frankie Gist, HDO founder.
Dozens of people came together last weekend to place markers at the St. Philips Moravian Second Graveyard, where hundreds of Africans and African Americans are buried in unmarked graves.