The Graham
Progressive Association
Public Policy Library
Legislative frameworks developed to address longstanding economic, civil-rights, land, public-safety, and justice concerns affecting Foundational Black Americans and the wider public.
Legislative Agenda
Establishes a federal recognition framework for Foundational Black Americans as a distinct American ethnic group connected to the historical development of the United States.
Read public bill profile →Strengthens federal responses to lynching, targeted hate crimes, intimidation, organized racial violence, and interference with protected civil rights.
Read public bill profile →Creates a federal reparations framework addressing slavery, Jim Crow, racial terror, exclusion, discriminatory public policy, and continuing measurable harms.
Read public bill profile →Creates national reporting, evidence-preservation, certification, accountability, civil-remedy, and due-process standards.
Read public bill profile →Addresses wrongful convictions, DNA access, public defense, disclosure obligations, sentencing data, conviction integrity, and compensation.
Read public bill profile →Targets discriminatory lending, banking deserts, mortgage access, small-business credit, and opaque automated lending decisions.
Read public bill profile →Addresses Black farmland loss, agricultural credit, USDA access, beginning-farmer opportunity, and land restoration.
Read public bill profile →Supports title clearing, estate planning, partition-sale assistance, property-tax relief, and preservation of multigenerational family land.
Read public bill profile →To establish a federal administrative and civil-rights framework recognizing Foundational Black Americans as a distinct American ethnic group whose collective identity is rooted in the United States and in the experiences of people subjected to American slavery, Reconstruction-era racial violence, Jim Crow, and subsequent systems of exclusion.
To strengthen the protection of Foundational Black Americans and other persons from lynching, targeted racial violence, organized intimidation, hate crimes, conspiracies, retaliation, and interference with federally protected rights.
To establish a comprehensive federal process for documenting, calculating, and remedying harms imposed upon Foundational Black Americans through slavery, Jim Crow, racial terror, discriminatory public policy, and continuing institutional exclusions from July 4, 1776, to the present.
To establish uniform federal standards for law-enforcement accountability and transparency while protecting civil rights, preserving material evidence, improving national reporting, and providing procedural safeguards for accused officers.
To reduce wrongful convictions, strengthen the constitutional reliability of criminal proceedings, improve defense resources, preserve access to evidence, and establish fair compensation standards for persons wrongfully imprisoned.
To expand fair access to banking, mortgages, small-business capital, and transparent credit decisions in historically underserved FBA neighborhoods while strengthening enforcement against discrimination.
To address the historic decline of Black-owned farmland by improving access to land, agricultural credit, USDA programs, technical assistance, market opportunity, and beginning-farmer support.
To preserve inherited family property by resolving unclear title, expanding legal and estate-planning services, preventing coercive partition sales and tax-sale displacement, and improving access to financing and public programs.