More than 30,000 members of the #OmegaPsiPhi attended the group's biennial international convention that took place July 21-26 at the #Charlotte Convention Center.

This was the first in-person #GrandConclave since the 81st meeting in 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The organization’s 83rd Grand Conclave focused on community service, mentoring to youth, philanthropic efforts, recognizing the fine arts, and celebrating the group’s decades of social action achievements. The free workshops included self-esteem, goal setting and academic success, health wellness, sexual awareness, and conflict resolution. Experts from industries ranging from law to health care facilitated the workshops. Rickey Smiley, comedian, and member of the Fraternity hosted his syndicated morning radio show from the Charlotte Convention Center and a public forum on race relations in the United States and its decades-long systemic impact in the quest for racial and economic equality was also held. The session featured civil rights attorney #BenjaminCrump, NAACP President/CEO #DerrickJohnson, and comedian and syndicated radio #DLHughley. Actor #AnthonyAnderson, who starred in the long-running comedy series #Blackish, served as the session’s moderator.

Omega Psi Phi was founded over 110 years ago at Howard University in Washington D.C. by three undergraduate students and their faculty advisor. They sought to address the racial hostilities of the day and find ways to uplift the Black community. That conversation between Howard undergraduates Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, Edgar A. Love, and Professor Ernest E. Just led to the creation of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Today, the Fraternity’s membership is over 175,000 in more than 700 undergraduate and graduate chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It was the first black-male Greek-letter organization founded on the campus of a historically black college.

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