Rochester Umoja Karamu

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Rochester Umoja Karamu Umoja Karamu is a ritual for the Black family that was developed to create new meaning and solidarity through ceremony and symbolism.

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. Since 2020, Rochester Umoja Karamu has given away hundreds of dinner boxes to the Greater Rochester community to learn about and celebrate the unity feast. Umoja Karamu dinner boxes include whole chickens, fresh collard greens, fresh squash, fresh sweet potatoes, corn, tomatoes, black-eyed peas, and rice. Each dinner box is built to feed a family of four. All foods are emblematic of people of African descent’s unity, strength, struggle, and liberation; and the unity dinner offers an opportunity to authentically celebrate our legacies.

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