In October 2018, The HistoryMakers attended the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, known as ASALH, in Indianapolis. In line with this year’s theme, ‘African Americans in Times of War,’ the conference featured a host of panels and discussions that explored the paradoxes of war and the Black struggle for freedom and equality abroad and at home. HistoryMaker and ASALH President Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, serves as a member of The HistoryMakers Higher Education Advisory Board and invited HistoryMakers Founder and President, Julieanna Richardson, to deliver that year's keynote address, where this video premiered.