The Proposed Platform & Name of Party - Both will be voted on at the National Black Action Convention 2027.

The People’s Party

A Black-led political force committed to community control, self-determination, and the construction of durable institutions, in education, health, housing, justice, technology, and beyond.

WHO WE ARE

The People's Party exists because the systems we were born into were never designed to serve us. We are not a reform movement. We are a power-building bloc intent on building an equal and equitable system that “we the people,” control.

For generations, Black communities have been promised equity through integration, inclusion, and access to institutions that were built on our exclusion and exploitation. Those promises have not been kept. The answer is not to march farther or wait longer. The answer is to build our own , our own schools, our own clinics, our own media, our own technology, our own political infrastructure, and to exercise genuine, binding control over the decisions that shape our lives at every level of this corrupt government.

This platform is our declaration of intent. We are organizing a power bloc, local, statewide, and eventually nationally rooted in community governance, group economics, and the unapologetic centering of Black leadership. We will nolonger accept their crumbs. We will nolonger seek a seat at their table. We are building the table, the room, and the institution around it.

Community control is not a demand. It is a non-negotiable condition of our full participation in this society as free citizens.

Pillar I

Education

Freedom To Know Our Full History

Education is the foundation of every other freedom, and for too long it has been used as an instrument of our subjugation rather than our liberation. We believe that Black communities must exercise direct, democratic control over the schools that serve our children , from curriculum and hiring to budgets and disciplinary policy. That means elected school boards accountable to residents, not corporations or charter management organizations, and it means building independent freedom schools and learning cooperatives grounded in Black history, critical consciousness, and economic literacy.

We will fight for equitable, community-controlled public school funding that ends the reliance on local property taxes, a system designed to perpetuate inequality. At the same time, we will invest in community-run alternatives: after-school programs, rites-of-passage institutions, apprenticeship networks, and higher education cooperatives that prepare our young people to build and lead our own institutions rather than simply enter someone else's workforce.

Medical racism is not a historical relic, it is an active, ongoing crisis. Black mothers die in childbirth at three times the rate of white mothers. Black patients are systematically under-treated for pain. Our communities are surrounded by food deserts, toxic environments (data centers), and chronic stress that the healthcare system profits from rather than addresses. The solution is not simply better access to a broken system that is historically racist. It is community ownership of our own health infrastructure.

We support the development of community health centers, cooperative clinics, and midwifery and doula networks that are owned by the people they serve, governed by resident-majority boards, and rooted in culturally competent, trauma-informed care. We will advocate for state-level community health authority boards with real budget power, and for mental health services, addiction treatment, and elder care that are integrated into the fabric of our communities, not siloed in institutions that criminalize illness rather than treat it.

Housing is not a commodity, it is a human right, and the foundation of stable families and resilient communities. Decades of redlining, urban renewal, and speculative real estate development have systematically stripped Black families of wealth and belonging. Gentrification has displaced entire communities, turning vibrant neighborhoods into unaffordable terrain for the very people who built them up. We refuse to accept this as a casualty of being Black in America.

Our housing platform centers community land trusts, housing cooperatives, and tenant-owned buildings as the model for stable, permanently affordable housing. We will push for anti-displacement ordinances and community benefit agreements with binding enforcement, not recommendations at the municipal and state level. We support reparative land redistribution, right-to-return programs for displaced residents, and the democratization of zoning decisions so that communities, not developers, decide what gets built in our neighborhoods and on what terms.

Food apartheid: The deliberate creation of communities where fresh, healthy food is inaccessible. This is a form of slow violence. It is not an accident or a market failure. It is the predictable outcome of economic policies that have stripped Black communities of land, wealth, and self-sufficiency. The answer is food sovereignty: the right of our communities to define and control our own food systems.

We will invest in urban agriculture, cooperative farming networks, community-owned grocery stores, and food distribution hubs that reconnect our people to the land and to one another. We support legal and financial protections for Black land ownership, including the recovery and preservation of heirs' property stolen through legal exploitation. We advocate for farm-to-community programs, food justice education, and state agricultural policy that centers small cooperative producers rather than industrial agribusiness conglomerates that extract from rural Black communities without reinvesting in them.

Black and low-income communities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental destruction: polluting industrial facilities, toxic waste sites, flooding from inadequate infrastructure, and the accelerating catastrophe of climate change. This is not coincidence. It is the outcome of a political economy in which the lives and lungs of Black people are treated as acceptable collateral in the pursuit of corporate profit. We will not accept that trade-off.

We demand community veto power over any development that introduces environmental risk to our neighborhoods, with no exceptions for economic development arguments made by outside interests. A prime example of this would be these data centers currently being built in our communities destroying our breathable air and water. Thanks to billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg. We support a just transition to community-owned clean and renewable energy, green infrastructure investment governed by frontline residents, and climate resilience planning developed by and for the communities most at risk. Polluters must pay, not in fines that become the cost of doing business, but in genuine remediation, reparation, and permanent accountability. Our neighborhoods will not be your dumping grounds.

We believe in public safety. We do not believe that the current model of policing delivers it. When Black people are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans, when departments operate with near-total impunity, and when communities have little or no power to shape the policies of the forces that patrol their neighborhoods, what exists is not public safety, it is occupation. True safety comes from healthy communities: from good schools, stable housing, accessible healthcare, living-wage employment, and the resolution of conflict through means other than armed confrontation.

We support the establishment of elected, independent civilian oversight commissions with genuine binding authority, not advisory boards that can be ignored. These commissions must hold power over officer hiring and termination, use-of-force policy, and departmental budgets. We advocate for the reallocation of funds from militarized policing toward community-based safety programs: violence interruption initiatives, mental health crisis response teams, restorative justice programs, and youth development. We will also establish a new police training program to ensure racists are not allowed to wear a badge of authority. Our communities will define what safety looks like for ourselves.

The criminal legal system in America was not built to deliver justice to Black people. It was built in significant part to control us, and the evidence is overwhelming. Black people are more likely to be stopped, searched, charged, convicted, and sentenced more harshly than white people for identical behavior. Cash bail criminalizes poverty. Mandatory minimums strip judges of discretion and fill prisons with people who pose no public safety threat. Prosecutorial misconduct goes largely unchecked. This is not a system in need of tweaks, it requires fundamental transformation.

We support the abolition of cash bail and mandatory minimum sentencing, the expansion of prosecutorial accountability, and the election of district attorneys and judges who are genuinely accountable to community justice values rather than carceral politics. We also believe in building alternatives to the criminal legal system entirely: community-based conflict resolution bodies, restorative justice programs with the capacity to handle a wide range of cases, and transformative justice processes that address harm without relying on incarceration as the default or only response.

The United States imprisons more people than any nation on earth, and Black people make up nearly 40 percent of the incarcerated population despite being 13 percent of the general public. This is not a crime problem. It is a policy problem, the deliberate product of decades of choices to invest in caging human beings rather than building the conditions in which people can thrive. Mass incarceration devastates individuals, families, and entire communities, and overall has little to do with public safety or rehabilitation. It has more to do with this being a trillion dollars business for the 1%.

We demand the immediate abolition of private, for-profit prisons and the end of solitary confinement as a form of torture. We support dramatic reductions in the prison population through decriminalization, sentence review, and the expansion of early release programs. Critically, we believe that incarceration must be paired with genuine, well-funded reentry support: stable housing, employment, healthcare, and community belonging for returning citizens. This reentry infrastructure must be governed in a meaningful part by people who have themselves been incarcerated, whose knowledge of the system's failures and of what actually supports successful reintegration is irreplaceable.

Technology is not neutral. Algorithms trained on biased data produce biased outcomes, in hiring platforms that screen out Black applicants, in predictive policing systems that target Black neighborhoods, in credit scoring tools that deny Black families loans, and in facial recognition systems that misidentify Black people at catastrophically higher rates. The digital economy reproduces and accelerates racial inequality unless we intervene, not just by regulating the technology that already exists, but by building our own and insisting on data sovereignty for our communities.

We support public investment in community-owned broadband infrastructure that closes the digital divide and keeps connectivity in public hands rather than corporate ones. We support Black-led technology incubators and cooperatives, community data governance frameworks that put our people in control of how their information is collected and used, and strong algorithmic accountability legislation with community enforcement mechanisms. The infrastructure of the 21st-century economy must be built with and for Black communities, not extracted from them.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the political terrain. For most of American history, the story of Black people has been told by others, and often in ways designed to justify our oppression, rationalize our poverty, or reduce our full humanity to spectacle and stereotype. Corporate consolidation of media has made this worse, reducing the diversity of ownership and perspective at the very moment when independent Black journalism, broadcasting, and storytelling are more essential than ever to our political survival and cultural vitality.

We are committed to the development and protection of independent Black-owned media in every form: radio, print, digital, podcast, and broadcast. We support the creation of community media centers that train journalists and media-makers from within our communities. We advocate for public funding for community journalism, must-carry policies that protect local independent outlets, and antitrust enforcement against the media conglomerates that have swallowed up the Black press. Our stories, told in our own voices, through infrastructure we own, are a non-negotiable pillar of our political power.

What Guides Us

Core Governing Principles:

Community Control

Every institution we build and every policy we advocate must be governed by the communities it serves. Accountability flows upward, from the people, and not downward from a party leadership or an electoral apparatus.

Black Leadership

This is a Black-led revolution. That is not exclusion, it is clarity of purpose. Your votes for our candidates is welcome. your donations are essential. However, the leadership, the agenda, and the power belong to us.

Participatory Democracy

We do not reduce democracy to voting every two or four years. We build structures of ongoing, participatory governance, with community assemblies, cooperative decision-making, and shared ownership, as the model for our institutions.

Economic Self-Determination

Political power without economic power is hollow. We prioritize cooperative ownership, community investment funds, local purchasing networks, and Black-owned enterprise as pillars of lasting liberation. Moreover, we prioritize financial literacy for our children as well as adults.

Accountability to the Most Marginalized

Our politics are shaped by the most vulnerable among us: the poorest, the most criminalized, the least visible, the most targeted. If our platform does not serve them, it does not serve us.

Intergenerational Institution Building

We are not building for the next election cycle. We are building institutions meant to outlast us: schools, cooperatives, media, land trusts, that our children will inherit and our grandchildren will lead. This is not a movement, it’s a lifestyle change.

Power Inside and Outside Elections

Electoral politics is one arena of power, not the only one. We build community power through organizing, economic cooperation, cultural production, and direct action alongside, and independent of, our electoral strategy.

THE TIME FOR ASKING IS OVER.