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Delavan-Grider Community Center

By Together Rising | May 17, 2022
Image description: The graphic has black background with white text that reads, “Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Roberta Drury, Margus Morrison, Andre Mackniel, Aaron Salter, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young, Ruth Whitfield. Together Rising is investing $50,000 in the Delavan-Grider Community Center, an organization led by Black women that has been a pillar of the Buffalo community for twenty years and is continuing to provide critically needed resources in the aftermath of Saturday’s racist, diabolical massacre by a white supremacist.”

Geraldine Talley

Celestine Chaney

Roberta Drury

Margus Morrison

Andre Mackniel

Aaron Salter

Heyward Patterson

Katherine Massey

Pearl Young

Ruth Whitfield

Those are the names of the ten Black people who were killed in Buffalo on Saturday in a racist massacre by a white supremacist. Three more were injured. 

One of the victims, Andre Mackniel, was picking up a birthday cake to celebrate his little boy turning three that day. He should have made it home to his son. All ten of these precious people should have gotten to walk out of that grocery store. Instead, they were gunned down in a matter of seconds. Their lives were stolen and the lives of all who knew and loved them were shattered instantly.

That grocery store was targeted. It was located in an area of Buffalo with the highest percentage of Black residents, as well as in a food desert, making it one of the only places where families could purchase quality, healthy food in their community.

We are investing $50,000 in the Delavan-Grider Community Center, an organization led by Black women that has been a pillar of the Buffalo community for twenty years and is continuing to provide critically needed resources in the aftermath of Saturday’s racist, diabolical massacre.

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