>> AHEAD AT 6:00, HEAR MORE FROM PEOPLE THAT LIVE NEAR WATER GREMLIN ABOUT THE WORKER COMING FORWARD AND WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE HAPPEN NEXT. >>> MINNEAPOLIS FOUND ITSELF IN THE CENTER OF THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT OVER RACE RELATIONS THREE YEARS AGO.
NOW SEVERAL NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE GIVING THEIR TIME AND MONEY TO THE TWIN CITIES. REG CHAPMAN SHARES THE IMPACT THAT HISTORICALLY BLACK FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES WILL HAVE . >> Reporter: THE MEN OF OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY INCORPORATED ARE HOLDING THEIR 10th
CONFERENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS AND THEY COME THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, AND MINNESOTA, AND MAKING THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN IN THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES. >> IT IS AN INFUSION OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO THE CITY THIS WEEK AND HELP THE
COMMUNITY, WHICH CAN THEN BE TURNED INTO INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY. >> JAMES BURROWS IS A PROUD MEMBER OF OMEGA PSI PHI AND HE AND HIS BROTHERS ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO COME INTO THIS COMMUNITY FOR IMPACT AND THEY NOT ONLY PARTNERED WITH THE
PEOPLE COLOR CAREER FAIR, THEY ALSO SPONSORED A YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AT A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL. >> WE’VE ALSO COLLECTED 1000 BOOKS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS WE WILL DISTRIBUTE OUT TO THE KIDS IN THE SCHOOLS HERE. AND WE ALSO HAD A BLOOD DRIVE.
>> THEY JOIN A LIST OF HISTORICAL BLACK FRATERNITIES AUTHORITY SUCH AS MINNEAPOLIS IS A PLACE TO HOLD THEIR CONFERENCES. TWO WEEKS AGO THE WOMEN OF A SORORITY HELD THEIR REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS. AND THEIR BROTHERS HELD THEIR LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE THE SAME WEEKEND.
LAST FALL, DELTA SIGMA THETA INCORPORATED HAD THEIR CONFERENCE HERE AND ALL HAD THE SAME REASON FOR CHOOSING MINNEAPOLIS. >> WE ARE THE HOME OF THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD IN THREE YEARS AGO WE ARE SAYING WHAT COULD WE DO AS A COMMUNITY?
I’M IMPRESSED THAT MY FRATERNITY DECIDED IN SPITE OF THAT THEY WANTED TO COME HERE AND HAVE THEIR DISTRICT EVENT, AND UNDERSTAND THEY COULD HELP HIM PUT BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY THE BLACK MEN COMING TO TOWN TO ADDRESS SCHOLARSHIP AND MANHOOD, UPLIFT FOR THE
COMMUNITY. >> REG CHAPMAN WCCO NEWS . >> THE MEN OF OMEGA ARE INVITING ANYONE TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT
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