President’s Service Award

The President’s Service Award is presented to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the African American community, locally and nationally. The President of ASALH selects an individual whose record of community service exemplifies one of the most important objectives of ASALH: selfless service to the African American community.

Recipients by Year

2025
Kimberle Crenshaw
Joy Reid
Shavon Arline-Bradley

2024
Aaisha Haykal
Anita Shepherd
Anthony B. Mitchell
Nikki Taylor
Zebulon Miletsky

2023
Darnell Smith
Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Sr.

2022
Milton C. Davis

AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

Award Nomination Form
Luminary Award Form
Award Descriptions and Past Awardees
Woodson Scholars Medallion
Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award
Council Award of Special Recognition
Living Legacy Awards
Freedom Scholar Award
The ASALH Luminary Award
The ASALH Book Prize
V.P. Franklin Legacy Journal of African American History Award
The Wesley-Logan Prize
National Educational Association’s Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award
National Educational Association’s H. Councill Trenholm Memorial Award
The Dorothy Porter Wesley Award
Rays of Light Honorees
President’s Service Award Honorees
Outstanding Branch Programming Award
Branch of the Year