Prior to delivering the keynote message at last Friday’s Founders Day Convocation at Virginia Union University, Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick Jr. of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville, Fla., is flanked by VUU President Claude G. Perkins, left, and Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, chair of the university’s Board of Trustees.
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Audience members rose to their feet with impassioned shouts of “Hallelujah!” and “Amen!” at Virginia Union University’s Founders Day Convocation last Friday.