The Race started as a Kickstarter campaign by the Unity Collective (A collaboration of running community leaders, vendors, and supporters united to host a road race that supports black owned businesses, runs through historically black neighborhoods, makes a positive impact with charity and service, and garners massive national support from the African-American running community and beyond). The campaign was to raise $60000 between November 24, 2017 to January 1, 2018 purely through backers and donations. They raised $73000.

The Race was ran October 13, 2018. The Race had Ida Keeling as grand marshal, a small expo, aspeaker series, and a community impact project on the sunday following race day. The course was hilly and little challenging. The energy of the race was great and a fun time was had by all.