2024 Umoja Karamu: Collect Your Unity Box

Gamma Iota Boule Foundation, Incorporated

invites the Greater Rochester Community to come and collect your Black Cultural Food Box to celebrate Umoja Karamu this year!

Saturday, November 23, 2024
2pm to 4pm
55 Fessenden Street, Rochester, NY 14611

Stop by to receive a dinner box of fresh foods for your family’s unity feast with items representing the five periods of African American/Black life.

Cultural Food Boxes are FREE and Open to the PUBLIC.

This is a celebration of "the other Thanksgiving" and we celebrate UMOJA KARAMU!
--
Umoja Karamu (meaning, “unity feast”) was established in 1971 as a Black cultural celebration acknowledged during the fourth Sunday in November; often regarded as “the other Thanksgiving.” It is a ritual for the Black Family to create new meaning and solidarity through ceremony and symbolism.