A new declaration
of independence.

What we declare.

When, in the course of 400 years, a people who helped build the wealth of a nation still find themselves locked out of owning it, they are bound by conscience to declare a different future — and to build it with their own hands.

We hold this truth to be self-evident: that a people who earn must also be free to own. Foundational Black America earns $1.6 trillion a year and owns barely three cents of the nation's wealth on the dollar. That is not independence. That is a leak.

So on this day, July 4th, 2026 — 250 years after the founding of the United States of America — we Foundational Black Americans declare a new form of independence: economic, structural, and permanent. We will form our people, build our businesses and our commons, and sustain what we own for the generations behind us. We will turn what we earn into what we keep, and keep it circulating among our own.

Form. Build. Sustain.