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this tops was our food source, our source to healthy foods. And now it’s been taken from us. That’s how we know this was *** hate crime. Not only did he target black folks, he targeted our ability to get healthy foods. The east side of buffalo is considered *** food desert. *** food desert is *** place where there is *** lack of access to quality nutritious foods. All of you have access to would be the corner store and all of the corner stores. They don’t have foods that have any type of nutritional value. The community organized and worked to get that tops. Mm hmm. Yeah. *** lot of us called the east side of buffalo the historically excluded part of the city and they have mhm. Mm hmm. You can notice the distance that we have to travel. This is what the, what the neighbors have to do. Why 2, 3, 4 busses just to get to the supermarket. So you see how important that supermarket is on jefferson. Different parts of the city received resources different. So just because your community has parks and splash pads and all the grass is fine and the streets are aren’t bumpy and the sidewalks aren’t cracked up. That doesn’t mean that everybody is getting that same package of resources. I stayed in the tops all day every day. Sometimes I go there 3, 4 times today. It’s not just *** shopping center. It’s not just *** grocery store that tops is actually *** community center. It’s where we go to congregate is where we go to talk because where we go to buy bread and stay for 15, 20 minutes because if you’re just going for *** loaf of bread, you’re going to find four or five people, you know, you’re gonna have *** couple conversations before you leave. We have this one place we have tops, we have our grocery store and one of my biggest fears is that when it reopens, its not gonna feel like ours anymore. And we fought so long for something to feel like ours and black communities across the country have been fighting so long just to feel like something belongs to us. Like we can go shopping, we can go to church, we can go to school, we can go to the movies and that’s just continuously being taken from us. We were robbed, someone had the unmitigated goal, the audacity to come to our community, our home and to rob us of our loved ones and then to rob us of our only grocery store.

Buffalo Bills, NFL raise $400,000 to aid in local response efforts following deadly shooting

The Buffalo Bills and NFL foundations are teaming to do what they can to help the Upstate New York community begin to heal following the deadly shooting perpetrated by a white supremacist against the Black community. The foundations are combining to donate $400,000 to aid in local response efforts. A combined $200,0000 will go to the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, a new fund that is a collaborative philanthropic effort across the region that will address the immediate and long-term needs in our community, including systemic issues that have marginalized communities of color.”On behalf of the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, we are most grateful for the generous contributions from the Buffalo Bills Foundation and the National Football League Foundation that will allow us to create real change and emerge from the darkness of this heinous act,” said Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. “This Fund is a partnership to build upon the collective desire to take action and to work together as a community to address immediate needs, long-term rebuilding and systemic issues that continue to marginalize communities of color.”The other half of the funds will go to various nonprofits working on emergency response efforts to address the immediate needs of Buffalo’s East Side residents. Some of the groups partnering with the Bills and the NFL are Buffalo Go Green, African Heritage Food Co-op, the Resource Council of WNY, and UB Food Lab to arrange home food deliveries to those unable to come to a food distribution site.In a press release, the Buffalo Bills said it plans to do more in the coming days and weeks to help the community recover and prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.To find more ways to get involved and provide support to those in need in our community, click here.

BUFFALO, N.Y. —

The foundations are combining to donate $400,000 to aid in local response efforts.

A combined $200,0000 will go to the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, a new fund that is a collaborative philanthropic effort across the region that will address the immediate and long-term needs in our community, including systemic issues that have marginalized communities of color.

“On behalf of the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, we are most grateful for the generous contributions from the Buffalo Bills Foundation and the National Football League Foundation that will allow us to create real change and emerge from the darkness of this heinous act,” said Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. “This Fund is a partnership to build upon the collective desire to take action and to work together as a community to address immediate needs, long-term rebuilding and systemic issues that continue to marginalize communities of color.”

The other half of the funds will go to various nonprofits working on emergency response efforts to address the immediate needs of Buffalo’s East Side residents.

Some of the groups partnering with the Bills and the NFL are Buffalo Go Green, African Heritage Food Co-op, the Resource Council of WNY, and UB Food Lab to arrange home food deliveries to those unable to come to a food distribution site.

In a press release, the Buffalo Bills said it plans to do more in the coming days and weeks to help the community recover and prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

To find more ways to get involved and provide support to those in need in our community, click here.