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Unity 4 Our Community

 

"Respect Black American Peoplehood"

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We are Distinct People with a Distinct Culture, Lived Experience, and even DNA. We should be treated with the same Respect and Dignity as other distinct people in America and not as a catch-all group. Our ethnogenisis occured in the United States of America thereby creating our Peoplehood.

We Are One


Call To Action 
April 2nd - April 27th 2023

Update
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Are you ready to be apart of History? Are you ready to make a difference in your community and around the Nation for Black Americans?
Then sign the online petition and Click here to Download the petition. Please print it out and take into your community. Get the signatures of your family and friends then upload to the OMB website Federal Register: Initial Proposals For Updating OMB's Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards
 
Petition
Read our Final Submission to the OMB

Timeline: The Power of Names and Naming Our People
We've Always Been One People

 

FROM SLAVES

TO FREEDMAN

TO COLORED

TO NEGRO

TO BLACK

TO AFRICAN AMERICAN

TO BLACK AMERICAN

Legal Identifers given to Black Americans by 

Our Goverment

  • Freed Blacks Foundational - 1865

  • Slave - (1619 - 1865)

  • Freedman - post-Civil War 1865 

  • Colored –  (1880-1930’s)

  • Negro – (1901 – 1945 or 1952)

  • Black - Black leaders advocated in early 1960’s the term Black

  • 1970s Black was the staple term used by everyone

  • 1991 ushered in African American

  • In 2019 to present: Black vs African American is trending

Did You Know the OMB Allows You to Choose how You want to Identify? Whether it's Legally Recognized or Not 

Go Ahead Identify Yourself
Are You A?​

Legislative Crosswalk

POLICY WINS FOLLOWED BY EXTERNAL PRESSURE FOR RENAMING

Connecting the Dots of Our Lineage through Name Changes, Legislation, And Our Equity
 

Educate, 

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Smiling young African American family with daughter save money in piggybank feel provident
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  • Freed Black

  • American Freedmen

  • Gullah Geechee

  • American Negro

  • Black American

  • African American

  • American Descendants of Slavery

  • Foundational Black American

  • Etc

SOLUTION
Contact the OMB and tell them
"I support the Definitions and Reporting Category Changes"
Please Note: The Public Comment Close On April 12, 2023
 

Proposed OMB Fig 2.  and Reporting Categories

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Click Here To Download The Petition
 
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