Be The Power
The Civic Power Movement
Building organized political power for American Freedmen
For 150 years, American Freedmen have possessed constitutional rights on paper while lacking the organized political power to enforce them. We vote, but often without strategy. We protest, but without converting outrage into sustained organizing. We celebrate victories that evaporate the moment public attention shifts.
Be The Power exists to correct this imbalance. We are the political mobilization infrastructure for American Freedmen—the descendants of persons emancipated in the United States following chattel slavery.
We organize American Freedmen into a permanent political force that delivers decisive vote margins, recruits trained candidates, and builds economic institutions. Not slogans. Not symbolism. Power.
Educational platform with 10K+ subscribers teaching constitutional law, Freedmen history, and political strategy. Five-module curriculum building doctrinal foundation.
Research, legal scholarship, and policy advocacy. Six states influenced. Massachusetts legislation authored. Yale academic partnerships established.
Political mobilization infrastructure. Chapter network, Power Academy, Freedmen Civic Bloc, candidate recruitment. This is where policy becomes power.
Author and political strategist. Founded USADOF in 2020 and built the Freedmen advocacy ecosystem including Freedmen University and Be The Power.
Co-authored "Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America" with Dr. William A. Darity Jr., presented at Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center.
Leads technology infrastructure, database management, and digital systems powering Be The Power's organizing operations.
Key leader in advancing Be The Power's political mobilization and community organizing initiatives.