Black-centered
Unity that lasts.
Structures that are predictable, consistent and built to outlive any one of us.
The United Black Network State is a human-focused, Black-centered network state, founded for the advancement, protection and unity of Black people in America and around the world.
The figures behind the mission, each from the official record.
people in the United States identified as Black, alone or in combination, in the 2020 Census.
in yearly buying power held by Black consumers in the United States.
was the median wealth of a Black household in 2022, against $285,000 for a white household.
of Black households own their home, against about 74% of white households.
Congress chartered the Freedman's Savings Bank. It failed in 1874 with nearly $3 million of our savings.
homes were burned in Tulsa's Greenwood district in 1921, according to the State of Oklahoma's own commission.
Productive means positive contribution: the builder, the teacher, the worker, the organizer, the grandmother raising the next generation. Every citizen contributes; no citizen merely takes.
Citizenship is free, it is taken by oath, and it is never sold.
Tell us who you are and why you want to stand with us.
Take the free citizenship course: our history, our papers and our oath.
Join the monthly swearing-in and receive your citizen number.
Keep the daily ritual, teach, serve or build. Every citizen contributes.
Answer the question, then get on with your day.
Find out in seconds whether a copy of any official paper is authentic.
Open → ✦Tell us what happened. The State answers within 24 hours.
Open → ✦Find the chapter nearest you, or start one in your city.
Open → ✦Search the records our ancestors left: census, Freedman's Bank and more.
Open → ✦Search the directory and keep our dollars circulating among us.
Open → ✦See the State counted: citizens, chapters, help delivered and people taught.
Open →Sealed on the Ledger of Record, where no one can rewrite them.
Who we are, what we hold to be true, and why we act now.
Read → White paperHow Black unity was broken, and how we rebuild it, cited from the public record.
Read → Founding documentHow the State is governed: its stages, its offices and the rights of its citizens.
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