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SourceLineThe Black Civic Data Platform

Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.

Coverage

Open in every state, at three levels

SourceLine is a national record of Black communities. Every address in the country opens today. How deep it goes depends on the state, and every page says plainly what is loaded and what is coming.

The three levels

Congress

Every state and Washington, D.C.

Your two senators and your member of the House for any address or ZIP code, with how to reach them, the Black community by the numbers and how your state compares.

State

Every state

Everything at the Congress level, plus your state lawmakers and statewide officials. How they vote and who funds their campaigns are added state by state, and each state's page says what is loaded.

Local

A growing list of places

Everything above, plus county commission, city council and school board officials and their votes, the money where you live and the issues being decided near you. County and city officials and their votes are on SourceLine in 82 places so far, with more coming soon.

Every state

Listed by Black population, the order we propose to open states at the State and Local levels.

Loading every state.

Black population: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, where loaded. The final order of states is set with partners and funders.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.