NAACP Holds “Holiday Taste Fair”

The Southern University chapter of the NAACP, along with various other organizations held a “Holiday Taste Fair” Wednesday night in the Martin Luther King Catholic Student Center as apart of NAACP week.
Chasity Smith, a junior therapeutic recreation and leisure studies major from Baker who coordinated the event for other organizations on campus to mingle.
There were many different holiday’s sponsored by various organizations including Collegiate 100 Black Women of Southern who represented St. Patrick’s day with an assortment of Irish dishes.
According to president of Collegiate 100 Black Women and senior political science major from Alexandria Brittni Allen, the organization’s participation was to also socialize with students and the organizations that were present at the event.
“A lot of our members are also NAACP members and we wanted to mingle and get our name out,” said Allen who prepared along with other members of the corn beef, cabbage, green cookies and green punch.
The Catholic Student Club, a service organization who deals with spiritual awareness and community service had a Christmas theme with food that included cheesecake and chicken.
Catholic Student Club president and junior business management major from Galveston, Texas Manuela Gomez handed out food to those in attendance.
“This event was a great way for us to come together with different organizations,” said Gomez.
Before those in attendance started to feast on the food available, the NAACP held a short program where president of the Southern chapter senior mass communication major from Napoleonville Morrell Carter Jr., thanked organizations who participation, director of the MLK Catholic Student Center Father George Lundy said a prayer and reporter Tyana Williams of WAFB channel 9 spoke on the importance of education.
“Young people should get an education and help others,” said Williams to those in attendance. “It’s time we started helping our community instead of waiting for a handout.”
The main reason of the “Holiday Taste Fair” according to Carter was to show unity through various holidays due to the fact that the NAACP was founded by many different races including whites and Jews.
“NAACP may seem to the mainstream as a black only institution because its more blacks are going through the struggle but that doesn’t mean we don’t support other races,” said Carter.
According to Carter, the event which was apart of NAACP which is in its 99th centennial, included a founders day and voter registration drive.
Christian Archie, senior health physical education major from Huston loved the different food available.
“We need to have these events more often because it’s different and nice,” Archie said.