A public-interest archive
We keep the record of what was taken, and the claim of what is owed.
BAFN is a nonprofit advocacy and research organization addressing the socioeconomic and systemic barriers facing Foundational Black American communities — expanding access to education, housing, economic, and financial opportunity, and building the standing to answer the harms done.
Current docket
Five standing commitments
Ledger · 01–05- 01
Education
Recovering and restoring the academic records, curricula, and scholarships long denied or dismantled.
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Housing
Documenting dispossession and redlining, and building the standing to contest it.
- 03
Economic & Financial Opportunity
Tracing the capital owed to Foundational communities and the mechanisms that withheld it.
- 04
Research
Peer-reviewed documentation that treats testimony as evidence and archives it for permanence.
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Civic Engagement
Organizing the communities named in the record to hold the institutions accountable for it.
Featured initiative
The HBCU Injustice Ledger
A standing intake for students and staff to file grievances against the harms done at historically Black colleges and universities. Filing here opens a docket, not a ticket.
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