Black 14 and College Football Hall of Fame collaborate with the Church to donate food in Atlanta

This donation brings the Black 14’s total to 1.75 million pounds of food donated across the country since 2020

Published: April 8, 2026, 12:01 p.m. MDT

Tony McGee, left, and Mel Hamilton, right, of the Black 14 Philanthropy thank Dustin Walker, the truck driver who delivered 36,000 pounds of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Atlanta Community Food Bank, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. The Black 14, the College Football Hall of Fame and the Church collaborated for the food donation. Alicia Lee, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

EAST POINT, Georgia — In collaboration with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Black 14 Philanthropy and College Football Hall of Fame donated 36,000 pounds of food to the Atlanta Community Food Bank on Tuesday, April 7.

“One of our missions is to help the communities that need food,” said Mel Hamilton of the Black 14 Philanthropy. “So far, we’ve delivered 1.75 million pounds of food since 2020. … We want to feed as many people as we can.”

Hamilton and his former teammate Tony McGee represented the Black 14 at the donation event at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

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