Whitepapers • Toolkits • Academic Papers • Ecosystem Guides
Welcome to the B1Thrive Resource Library, a growing archive of scholarship, strategy, and self-determination designed to empower Black entrepreneurs, creators, and community builders across the Diaspora. Every document in this collection reflects the core purpose of the B1Thrive Ecosystem: to cultivate digital sovereignty, reshape our procurement mindset, strengthen local supply chains, and build representative economies rooted in Ubuntu and collective care.
Here you will find foundational writings that guide our work, including the B1Thrive Ecosystem Whitepaper, the Black Creator Toolkit, and a curated selection of academic papers that inform our approach to community wealth circulation, institutional accountability, and Afrocentric business development. These resources are offered as tools for transformation – for those who refuse extractive models and are committed to building cooperative, culturally grounded futures.
Whether you are an entrepreneur seeking clarity, a policy thinker exploring pathways to equity, or a creator shaping your own economy, these downloads are here to support your journey.
This is more than a library, it is an invitation to study, to build, and to remember that our knowledge is a form of capital, and when we share it intentionally, we strengthen the entire ecosystem.
Learn. Build. Protect. Thrive.
The future we deserve begins with the information we choose to circulate.
The B1thrive “Black Paper” outlines the philosophical foundation and strategic architecture of the B1Thrive ThrivCloud application, grounding its design in Afrocentric values, digital sovereignty, and community-centered economic development. It offers a clear, actionable vision for transforming Black entrepreneurship through cooperative supply chains, data ownership, and culturally aligned digital infrastructure. Try Thrivcloud today.
B1thrive Black PaperThe Black Creator Toolkit is a practical, Afrocentric guide designed to help Black creatives build sustainable, sovereign pathways for their work in an economy that often exploits their brilliance. It equips creators with frameworks, tools, and strategies to protect their intellectual property, monetize their craft ethically, and circulate value within their own communities.
Black Creator ToolkitThis policy brief outlines fourteen of the most urgent threats artificial intelligence poses to Black life, drawing on leading scholarship from Ruha Benjamin, Meena Hwang, Hēmi Whaanga, the NAACP, and others. It exposes how AI systems deepen anti-Black inequity through digital colonialism, predictive policing, cultural extraction, racial misclassification, discriminatory algorithms, and the expansion of public–private surveillance networks like Flock and Ring.
Fourteen Critical Threats: How Artificial Intelligence Endangers Black Lives — Evidence, Scholarship, and Policy ImperativesThis issue sheet maps the conditions shaping Black digital life before solutions are proposed. It names the interconnected systems – technology, governance, land, labor, capital, and care – that determine whether digital futures reproduce extraction or make room for sovereignty. This document exists to feed a discourse, establish a shared language, and support clear thinking about what is at stake. Please feel free to suggest editions by emailing your contribution to support@b1thrive.com.
BLACK DIGITAL FUTURES ISSUE SHEET: A Contextual Map of Systems, Risks, and Design ConditionsBuilding a Healthier Future: AI and Civil Rights is the NAACP’s foundational white paper outlining how artificial intelligence is already shaping – and often harming – Black life across employment, healthcare, housing, education, surveillance, and civic participation. Grounded in civil rights law and Black community impact, the paper names algorithmic bias, data extraction, and unregulated automation as urgent threats, while advancing concrete policy and design principles to ensure AI systems are accountable to Black people, Black communities, and Black futures.
Building a Healthier Future: AI and Civil Rights
AI Civil Rights Act (2025) is a newly reintroduced legislative proposal led by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley alongside Senator Ed Markey, Representative Yvette Clarke, and other civil rights champions to establish strong federal guardrails against algorithmic discrimination in the age of artificial intelligence.
AI Civil Rights Act to Eliminate AI Discrimination
Artificial Intelligence and the Black Diaspora: Opportunities, Strategies, and the Path to Empowerment is a strategic presentation by Rev. Dr. Gerald F. Poe, Jr., outlining how AI can either deepen existing digital inequities or be intentionally wielded to advance Black economic power, education, cultural preservation, and civic agency across the global Black diaspora.
Artificial Intelligence and the Black Diaspora By Dr. Gerald F . Poe Jr., PM