"...we are becoming a rude society and it is reflecting in our business interactions,"
vibrates the sentiments of Lee Green, Founder and CEO of the National Black Business Trade Association.

To create viable opportunities for visual and performance artists, businesses, and non-profits/causes to increase their brand recognition and fan and customer base in new markets via strategic collaboratives based on esteem building art, entertainment, and marketing. To create a synergy of online and offline community loyalty and support. To reinforce core values and business etiquette for the community at large. To give back to the community through hands on community service, free promotion of non-profit causes, and provide monetary donations, where feasible, for institutions that provide models for vertical paradigms and healthy communities and whose work is and has been of great beneficial signficance to the Black community in the areas of think tank, art, peace, economics, and youth development.

BBSVT features and showcases performance and visual artists in the genres of jazz, hip hop, R&B, gospel, rock, spoken word, comedy, theatre/film, film making, photography, fashion design, and visual art as well as institutions whose work is and has been of great significance to the Black community and provide models for healthy community development.