This document is living — an outline to organize our aspirations and continue what's already started.
It does not prescribe every answer, but it offers guidance for organizing around what matters most.
These 16 categories represent the core and each reflects both the urgency of our present and the possibility of our future.
In the months ahead, these categories will become Action Items — tangible goals, tasks, and missions that individuals, families, cliques, and communities can take on.
We don't need permission. We need rhythm, structure, and a shared way forward.
Secure sustainable, community-owned spaces — from housing to farmland to green infrastructure. This category focuses on anti-displacement, shared ownership, and intergenerational land stewardship..
Why it matters: Without land, there is no power. Access to land is the foundation of autonomy for building homes, growing food, and stewarding our environment. Gentrification and displacement aren't just urban issues; they're economic warfare. By reclaiming land for housing, farming, and cooperative development, we reclaim stability, sustainability, and control of our surroundings.
Build and expand Black banks, credit unions, and investment vehicles that circulate money within our communities..
Why it matters: We can't buy freedom from those who profit off our dependence. When capital stays in the community, so does power.
We prioritize mental, physical, and spiritual wellness through culturally competent care, alternative medicine, and trauma-informed systems..
Why it matters: Black communities face disproportionate barriers to healthcare and wellness from environmental racism to systemic neglect. True healing requires more than hospitals. It means access to affordable care, mental health support, safe spaces for healing, and healthy, culturally relevant food. It also means reclaiming Indigenous and African practices that center the body, the mind, and the soul.
From wills and trusts to life insurance and family businesses, we establish tools that pass on knowledge, resources, and responsibility..
Why it matters: Wealth and wisdom must flow forward. Every generation should start further ahead than the last.
We build platforms and protect creators who reflect our full humanity — shaping culture instead of just consuming it..
Why it matters: Narrative is a weapon. When we don't own our stories, they are used against us.
We create curriculum, schools, and self-study models that honor our history and prepare our future — outside of colonial frameworks..
Why it matters: Traditional schooling was never designed to set us free. We must reimagine how and what we learn to truly prepare for power.
We build systems of mutual protection through community patrols, harm reduction, and when necessary, armed defense..
Why it matters: No one will protect us like we can. Community control of safety is essential for survival and self-respect.
We develop political education, run for office, and organize policy agendas that reflect our values..
Why it matters: If we don't shape the laws, they'll be used to contain or erase us. Power must be structural and political.
We launch startups, build co-ops, and innovate new economies that pay fairly, honor our time, and grow our ownership..
Why it matters: Labor fuels the economy. We must stop being just workers and start being owners, employers, and designers of work.
We protect and reclaim spiritual systems — from Christianity to Ifá to meditation — that center balance, ancestors, and community care..
Why it matters: We can't build a free world using a broken spirit. Spiritual grounding gives us clarity, resilience, and connection to purpose.
We transform justice through abolition, reentry support, mediation, and healing-centered approaches to harm..
Why it matters: The prison-industrial complex profits from our pain. True justice is about repair, through redemption.
We invest in sustainable building, renewable energy, clean water, and disaster-resilient infrastructure designed by and for us..
Why it matters: Environmental collapse affects us first and worst. Our communities must be equipped to survive and thrive.
We create labs, fund Black-led research, and innovate in tech fields like AI, biotech, and health equity..
Why it matters: We've been used as test subjects. It's time to continue as ethicists of invention and engineering shaping tomorrow.
We form councils, land trusts, nonprofit entities, and legal frameworks that allow us to hold and distribute power over time..
Why it matters: Without institutions, we rely on personalities. To last, movements need infrastructure that can outlive any one person.
We preserve languages, oral histories, rites of passage, grief rituals, and joyful traditions that root us in who we are..
Why it matters: Culture isn't decoration — it's direction. Memory makes meaning and keeps us from being erased.
We develop training programs, mentorship, and skill-building to grow emotionally intelligent, strategic, and accountable leaders..
Why it matters: Ideas don't lead movements — people do. And movements fail when they lack wise, prepared, and trusted leadership.