One house. Many wings. Built, not begged.
A think tank, a publisher, and a cluster of enterprises rebuilding Black self-determination from Liberty City, Miami.
We close the gap between the empirical record of structural harm to Black Americans and the institutions, technologies, and communities able to address it. We do not wait for permission — we build.
As the federal record is withdrawn (the EJScreen tool pulled; ~781 environmental-justice grants ended), a sovereign, openly-licensed alternative is an emergency public good. We built one — and a cluster of enterprises to fund the mission rather than beg for it.
We don't ask for a seat at the table. We build the table.
E5 Enclave Inc (501(c)(3)) sits at the center — the soul. Around it, separate by law and united by mission:
Bound by the Lattice — the signed-event mesh that lets them act as one.
Separate by law. United by mission. Connected by the Lattice.
Seven wings. One table. Each a working answer to a documented harm.
The eight-pillar, CC0, dual-source-verified record.
Non-invasive relief technology for elders.
Public education on the documented obligation.
Where a people banks is itself a statement. E5 is moving its capital — and inviting the community’s — into Black-owned institutions, and building toward finance the community owns.
Three moves, in sequence. First, bank Black — place operating and reserve funds with Black-owned banks. Second, open partnerships across the nation’s Black-owned banks and community development financial institutions for deposits, community lending, and capital. Third, build toward a lineage-led community development credit union — member-owned, one member, one vote — serving Liberty City and Overtown.
The field we are engaging includes OneUnited Bank, City First / Broadway, Liberty Bank & Trust, Carver, Industrial, Citizens Trust, and The Harbor Bank of Maryland — the Black-owned banks and CDFIs that have carried community capital for generations. These are relationships we are opening, not endorsements claimed.
Banking Black is itself the statement.
A diversified think tank with an earned-revenue sovereignty layer — products, SaaS, and services — that funds the mission instead of depending on grants alone.
Six streams: federal grants, national foundations, tech/AI funders, reparations and racial-justice funders, individual giving, and earned revenue.
Entities formed (counsel-gated); McCartney Academy facility pursuit under Schools of Hope; Elder-Relief launch; AgriMesh NSF SBIR; board expands to seven.
Verticals scaling; the cooperative stood up; the $1.25M target.
The cluster operating as one; the Lotus Gate Forum; the $2.8M target.
A self-sustaining cluster, and a model transferable to other communities.
Fund the work; every gift compounds across the house.
→Back the enterprises that fund the mission.
→Institutional collaboration and CC0 data partnership.
→Teachers, doulas, builders, organizers: lend your hands.
→This is your house. Wear it. Build it. Hold it.
→Policy, facilities, and partnership in Liberty City and beyond.
→We are not asking you to buy in. We are inviting you to belong.
