Attack on Our Power and Dignity: What Project 2025 Means for Black Communities dissects Project 2025 and details how its radical proposals to restructure the federal government and increase the president’s authority would severely harm Black communities across the country. Specifically, this report explains how this extremist manifesto, which does not directly name Black people, specifically, as targets, would nonetheless operate to attack and undermine political power, civil rights protections, and economic and educational opportunities for Black communities. In direct contrast to the regressive agenda of Project 2025, this report offers an affirmative vision for how Black communities can thrive.
Project 2025 represents a direct and deliberate threat to Black communities across seven key areas addressed in this report: civil rights, education, political participation, the criminal legal system, housing, reproductive rights, and environmental protections. At its core, it aims to dismantle essential agencies and regulations that protect civil rights while promoting anti-democratic and anti-justice initiatives that would weaponize civil rights enforcement by federal agencies. These proposals are designed to erode the very principles of equality, justice, and fairness that form the foundation of our democracy—and the impact would be devastating.
