HARLEM (WABC) — Rev. Al Sharpton hosted his annual Thanksgiving dinner on the Nationwide Motion Community’s Home of Justice in Harlem on Thursday.
Mayor Eric Adams joined Sharpton for the occasion for town’s underserved. The occasion was open to all.
Those that attended stepped out of the chilly rain and right into a heat room full of smiling, grateful faces.
“”It means household, it means buddies,” mentioned Harlem’s Kim Taylor. “It means getting collectively. It means happiness.”
The dinner has been a Harlem custom for greater than 30 years. A number of the neediest folks in New York and a few of the strongest folks in New York gathering collectively beneath one roof to have a good time.
The road to get in stretched out the door and into the rain.
“I keep in mind rising up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, single mom, and he or she would wrestle to present us Thanksgiving dinner,” added Sharpton. “And I all the time mentioned if I ever bought ready, I might made positive that some child and their mama -like I used to be- would have Thanksgiving, if no person served it however me.”
Neighborhood leaders have been additionally available to fill the plates for individuals who attended, together with NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander.
“It is actually about giving again,” Williams mentioned. “I believe we’ve some powerful occasions forward.”
Dr. Jessie Fields, who additionally works in the neighborhood mentioned she wasn’t lacking the possibility to volunteer for such a neighborhood gathering.
“This morning I bought up and I made a decision this may be the perfect place for me to be, the place individuals are serving to one another,” she mentioned. “The way in which the neighborhood’s coming. It is Thanksgiving! That is the spirit of Thanksgiving.”
A turkey distribution for households adopted the dinner.
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