Submission reviewer
Triage new directory entries: confirm Black ownership, fact-check the summary, tag the right category, approve or send back for edits.
Volunteer
Help build the world's largest community-driven knowledge platform for Black history, innovation, businesses, and culture.
Contribute articles, verify submissions, review entries, moderate discussions, or help build the technology behind the platform. You don't need a degree, a title, or a referral — just the willingness to do the work.
Why people join
Preserve + share knowledge
Verify submissions, fact-check stories, and help fill historical gaps. Black history doesn't keep itself.
Raise visibility
Surface Black-owned businesses, founders, landmarks, and creators that are hard to find anywhere else.
Build technology, AI, media, or publishing skills
We ship in public — engineering, editorial, design, moderation. Work alongside people doing it for real.
Build a portfolio
Everything you contribute is credited and linkable. Take it with you to your next role, grant, or proposal.
Contribute to something larger than a feed
Long-form articles. Verified directory entries. Cultural archives. Things that compound year over year.
The kinds of help we need
Five always-on tracks anyone can plug into. None require a background check or an interview — most of it is async and self-paced.
1-3 hrs/week
Editorial contributor
Write Black History stories, On Stage features, or Level Up playbooks. Pitch a topic or pick one off the open queue.
Verification scout
Match unverified entries against state registries, IRS records, BBB profiles, and SAM.gov so the verification badges stay current.
Community moderator
Review flagged content, moderate comments, enforce the community guidelines. The two-strike paid mod tier is open to active volunteers first.
Engineering + design
Pick up issues, ship features, polish UI. Stack is Next.js + Supabase + Postgres. Open source contributions are welcome.
Currently open volunteer roles
Specific calls posted by black.wiki and by community organizations that use the platform. These rotate as roles fill.
Posting a role? Anyone can.
The Jobs board isn't just for black.wiki. Any signed-in user can post a paid or volunteer opening for their own business, nonprofit, or community project — free. Listings go to the same moderator queue as directory entries, so they stay on-mission. If you're a Black-owned organization or you're recruiting for one, your role is welcome here.
Ready to plug in?
Send a quick note about which track interests you and any links that show your work (portfolio, articles you've written, repos, etc.). No résumé needed.