Repair

The FLRA is a federal legislative model that:

• Recognizes Foundational Black Americans as a constitutionally protected lineage.
• Documents the harms inflicted on FBAs across generations.
• Establishes a permanent reparations system with financial, land, legal, and cultural protections.
• Ensures that benefits are exclusive to verified FBAs.
• Creates federal oversight structures to enforce compliance and prevent erosion.

It is designed as a comprehensive blueprint for repair, restoration, and future protection of the lineage. The sections below explain how it is carried out through law, structure, and permanence. 

The Act defines who qualifies as an FBA, establishes verification processes, and grants FBAs federally recognized protected status.

Includes:

• Lineage-based, not race-based, classification
• Constitutional standing for discrimination, exclusion, erasure, and harm
• Federal requirement that all agencies use the FBA designation
• Fraud prevention and penalties 

The Act requires the U.S. government to formally recognize and apologize for the harms it sanctioned and enforced across generations. 

Includes:

• Slavery
• Abandonment of Reconstruction
• Jim Crow
• COINTELPRO
• The War on Drugs and mass incarceration
• Housing discrimination, redlining, targeted displacement
• Economic and political sabotage

It mandates declassification of relevant federal documents, public education, and permanent historical archiving. 

The Act establishes a National Reparations Trust Fund as the financial engine for reparative justice. 

Includes:

• Cash compensation
• Annual lifetime payments
• Debt cancellation
• Homeownership and land restoration
• Tuition-free education
• Zero-interest business capital
• Healthcare access
• Intergenerational transfer protections

Payments continue until national parity is achieved and sustained. 

The Act protects historically Black neighborhoods and returns stolen land through lineage-specific designations.

Includes:

• FBA Restoration Zones
• A National FBA Land Bank
• Anti-displacement and anti-gentrification safeguards
• Fair housing and appraisal protections
• Preservation of cemeteries and sacred sites
• Environmental remediation in FBA communities 

The Act requires federal investment to rebuild the physical, economic, and environmental foundations of FBA life.

Includes:

• Community facilities (centers, schools, cultural hubs)
• Environmental cleanup
• Broadband expansion
• Public transportation
• Utility sovereignty
• Emergency shelters
• Workforce pipelines with majority-FBA hiring 

The Act requires full integration of FBA history, culture, and contributions into public education.

Includes:

• Mandatory K–16 curriculum
• FBA-led governance boards for local schools
• Civic organizing and leadership training
• Scholarships, fellowships, and teacher pipelines
• Adult education and vocational programs 

The Act requires Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) receive federal protections to ensure their missions remain aligned with the needs of FBA students.

Includes:

• Lineage-based admissions priority
• Dedicated federal endowment
• FBA-majority governance and faculty requirements 
• Research hubs focused on culture, policy, and economic innovation 

The Act creates a comprehensive healthcare framework addressing generational harm.

Includes:

• Universal coverage for verified FBAs
• Trauma-informed care and crisis services
• Maternal health protections and reproductive justice measures
• Chronic disease prevention
• Addiction and recovery supports
• Workforce development for FBA healthcare careers 

The Act provides structural remedies to end the long arc of criminal legal harm.

Includes:

• Automatic expungement for targeted offenses
• Compensation for wrongful convictions
• Living wages for incarcerated labor
• School-to-prison pipeline elimination
• Juvenile justice protections
• Federal oversight of law enforcement
• Lineage-based hate crime classification

This Act establishes the long-term economic engine of restoration.

Includes:

• Tax exemptions for FBA households
• Property tax relief
• Business tax credits and lending protections
• FBA-owned enterprise certification
• Protection against predatory lending and appraisals
• Digital entrepreneurship funding
• FBA business districts

National Sovereign Wealth Fund with annual dividends 

The Act protects FBA culture, intellectual property, and narrative from exploitation.

Includes:

• Federal FBA Cultural Trust
• AI and digital likeness protections
• Data sovereignty
• Lineage-exclusive eligibility rules
• Global trade protections for FBA-origin goods and cultural works

The Act establishes permanent national observance, historical archiving, and cultural protection.

Includes:

• A federal observance for FBA Day (July 5)
• Heritage site protection
• National archives
• Intergenerational knowledge transfer mandates
• Succession plans ensuring all cultural institutions remain lineage-led

The Act protects against sabotage or dilution. It creates a complete governance ecosystem.

Includes:

• FBA Lineage Verification Board
• Reparations Oversight Commission
• DOJ Lineage Protection Division
• Technical Assistance Centers

Funding streams are protected from political interference and cannot be reduced without strict conditions. 

The Act tightly links budgeting, auditing, and verification to block fraud and ensure resources reach FBAs only.

Includes:

• Secure national lineage database
• Annual economic and compliance audits
• Penalties for misallocation
• Oversight reports to Congress

Together, these measures ensure verifiable compliance and protect reparative funds from fraud, diversion, or misallocation. 

The FBA Lineage Rights Act provides the first fully federal structure for repair, protection, and restoration grounded in lineage, history, and measurable outcomes.

Key Details:

• Moves beyond symbolic gestures to structural transformation.
• Restores wealth, health, safety, and community stability.
• Protects FBA identity from distortion or erasure.
• Creates long-term mechanisms to prevent repeated harm.
• Aligns national policy with historical responsibility.

Most reparations proposals focus on symbolic investments, broad racial programs, or generalized equity goals. The FLRA is structurally different—built for lineage, enforcement, and measurable restoration.

Key Details:

• Lineage-Specific: Protects the descendants of U.S. chattel slavery, not broad racial categories.
• Enforceable Structure: Creates governing bodies, penalties, and oversight systems—not just recommendations.
• Data Integrity: Prevents misclassification, dilution, or substitution of FBA identity.
• Restoration Zones: Concentrates resources where government harm was highest, not where general need is broadest.
• Permanent Architecture: Builds long-term institutions to protect FBAs across generations, independent of political cycles.

The FBA Lineage Rights Act is a legislative model designed for federal, state, and local adoption. This section provides a clear, accessible pathway showing how the Act moves from a model into enforceable law.

Key Details:

• Congress has the authority to introduce, debate, amend, and pass the Act into federal law.
• States and municipalities can adopt aligned versions to begin implementation at local levels.
• Lawmakers, institutions, and advocacy groups may request technical guidance from USBA 2025.
• Public support builds momentum by educating communities, institutions, and officials on the Act’s purpose and scope.
• Implementation begins once the Act is enacted: agencies create regulations, establish governing bodies, and begin timelines for restoration.