United States of Black America

USBA 2025 is the digital platform for the USBA ecosystem and the central location for Foundational Black Americans (FBAs), the lineage formed through U.S. chattel slavery before 1865.

The USBA ecosystem is a lineage-based national framework that defines who we are, protects our identity from distortion, and outlines the cultural and structural foundation needed for restoration and reparative justice.

For generations, FBA identity has been blurred by broad racial categories that erase our lineage and obscure the specific harms we have inherited. This lack of clarity weakens our ability to secure justice, protect our culture, and address the structural conditions that shape our lives.

USBA 2025 provides the structure needed to correct this issue. It offers a clear, accessible framework that explains who we are, what defines our lineage, and why identity must come first before any meaningful path of repair.

The USBA ecosystem starts with identity because reparations, policy, community structure, and national restoration all depend on knowing exactly who the harmed lineage is. Identity anchors everything that follows. 

Identity as a Structural Determinant of Health (ISDH) reflects this reality. Identity is not just cultural—it is an upstream force that shapes exposure to harm, access to resources, and long-term patterns of inequality for FBAs.

When FBAs are misclassified as “Black,” “African American,” “minority,” or “people of color,” it has a lasting impact. 

This includes:

• blurred lineage
• inaccurate data
• weakened political claims
• distorted cultural narratives
• and blocked pathways to reparative justice

Identity clarity restores the ground beneath our feet. 

Identity is not about preference, aesthetics, or self-selected labels. 

Identity defines lineage by:

• descent from ancestors enslaved in the U.S. before 1865
• inherited exposure to U.S. policy and structural harm
• generations formed on American soil
• a distinct cultural tradition created out of FBA experience

FBA identity is not fluid. 

It is inherited as a fixed, historically grounded lineage. 

Reparative justice requires precision:

• a clearly defined harmed group
• a documented lineage
• proof of jurisdictional harm
• shared cultural and historical grounding

Without identity clarity, reparations become diluted, misdirected, or re-routed to groups who did not experience the same lineage-specific harm. USBA ensures that reparative conversations begin with clarity.  

Identify defines FBAs and the structural harms that were done to us. 

Lineage is the frame that protects every claim that follows.

Phase I of USBA 2025 provides the core identity tools that give FBAs shared grounding and national coherence. 

This includes: 

• Declaration of Freedom
• USBA Constitution
• 25 Rights of Foundational Black Americans
• National Symbols
• National Holidays & Observances
• USBA Pledges

Assets establish the cultural foundation of our lineage. 

Lack of identity is:

• the root of structural harm
• the root of misclassification
• the root of erasure
• and the root of delayed justice

Identity gives us the clarity to organize, restore, and build.

Start with identity.
Everything else grows from here.