The 2023 theme assigned by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is Black Resistance.
African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores. These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction.
VSU Gospel Chorale performing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and "The National Anthem."