Sources & Methodology
The FBA Threat Database is a structured record of all locations, groups, and institutions that have historically or currently put Foundational Black Americans at heightened risk of harm.
Historic threats include sundown towns, cities, neighborhoods, and counties; lynching areas and lands; anti-Black massacre locations; slave trader ports; bombing locations; and places, groups, and institutions of racial hostility, land theft, violent takeovers, legal and political sabotage, and severe discrimination.
Modern dangers include modern lynching or suspected lynching zones; suspected or confirmed race-soldier police departments; racially hostile locations; environmental danger zones; paramilitary groups; dangerous local and international gangs; and international danger zones for travelers.
Books
Sundown Towns; 1919 The Year Of Racial Violence; 100 Years Of Lynchings; Without Sanctuary; Mob Rule In New Orleans; Blood At The Root; Southern Horrors; At the Hands Of Persons Unknown; The Color Of Law; Bring The War Home — The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America; The Negro Motorist Green Book; The Slaughter — An American Atrocity; The Black Tax (2024); Slavery's Mastery — Religion's Oppressive Bigotry; and others.
Online statistics and data
Sundown Town Data hosted by Tougaloo College (only "surely" and some "probable" anti-FBA areas added); FBI hate crime statistics by region; US Census data maps by race; the Police Consent Decree Database; the US State Department's travel advisory map (propaganda filtered); source-driven AI and manual search verifications; Human Rights Watch reports; Amnesty.org articles; the SPLC's white nationalist data (propaganda filtered); the UN High Commission reports on racial discrimination; and lynching and racial data from the Equal Justice Initiative.
Video archives
Brother Taurean Reign's Sundown Town and Massacre series; Brother Great Black Shark's archives; Brother Runaway Slave 2.0's archives; Brother Taylor House Publishing's archives; Brother Introvert Rockstar's archives; and various historical documentaries and first- and second-hand video testimonies.
Word of mouth
Various FBAs and some non-FBAs.
Peer review
Dr. Randy Short; The Church Of Black Power; Mississippi Blue; Great Black Shark.
Sources & Methodology for the Anti-Black List
The Anti-Black List is a record of businesses and/or institutions that may not put FBAs in danger physically, but which have had a documented history or private reports of being anti-FBA or “anti-Black.” Some listings are historic, and some are much more recent. Some are online, and others are at physical locations.
Historic Anti-Black Businesses include businesses that have owned FBAs as slaves, rented those slaves, sold those slaves, etc. It also includes historical businesses that have wronged or targeted FBAs based on our race/ethnicity.
Modern Anti-Black Businesses include businesses that have discriminatory practices, unfair/unequal treatment, discriminatory hiring practices, anti-Black staff and/or owners, and racial hostility. It also includes businesses that have wronged or targeted FBAs based on our race/ethnicity, etc.
Books
Black Labor white wealth; How white folks got so rich; The Color of Law; The Negro Motorist Green Book; The Black Tax (2016); The Black Tax (2024); Freakenomics; Google Leaks (Zach Vorhies); At the Hands of Persons Unknown; Mob rule in New Orleans, etc.
Online statistics and data
Various news articles; Various government releases, including but not limited to FBI, CIA, DOJ, and White House reports; Racial data from the Equal Justice Initiative.
Video archives
Brother Tariq Nasheed’s archives; Professor Black Truth’s archives; Brother Tauren Reign’s archives; Brother Great Black Shark's archives; Brother Runaway Slave 2.0's archives; Brother Taylor House Publishing's archives; Brother Introvert Rockstar's archives; and various historical documentaries and first- and second-hand video testimonies.
Word of mouth
Various FBAs and some non-FBAs.
Corrections and submissions
If there is an issue with a specific threat listing or Anti-Black listing, navigate to the specific page here on this website and scroll down until you see "suggest an edit." Submit a report and we'll see what we can do. Now, please be aware, just because a report is submitted, doesn't mean things will be changed. Also, be aware that no robots or automated software will be used to scan reports. A human admin will, so please be patient.
For more general inquiries or serious issues, you can contact me via email listed on the Contact page.