By Stacy M. Brown, Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) has released Forward Together: The Black Policy Playbook for an Equitable America, a sweeping set of recommendations designed to dismantle systemic barriers and chart a course toward racial equity in the United States. Published in 2025, the playbook arrives at a critical moment, with Black communities confronting deep disparities in wealth, health, education, and criminal justice.

Authored by Jonathan Cox, Vice President of the CBCF’s Center for Policy Analysis and Research, and his team, the playbook outlines a bold agenda that ties equity directly to America’s long-term prosperity and democratic stability. It argues that structural racism remains a defining obstacle to nat

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