Black-led community development credit union branch on University Boulevard in Jackson

Hope Credit Union was started in 1994 by Bill Bynum and has grown into a community development credit union serving the Deep South, with headquarters at Old River Place in… more

Durham's Black-owned bank since 1907, a pillar of the old Black Wall Street

Mechanics and Farmers Bank was founded in Durham in 1907 and grew alongside the Parrish Street business district known as Black Wall Street. Today M&F Bank is a CDFI offering… more

Mission-driven Black-led bank with its headquarters and branch on U Street NW

City First Bank combined Washington's City First with Los Angeles' Broadway Federal Bank, founded in 1946 to serve Black Angelenos, in a 2021 merger reported as creating the largest Black-owned… more

New Orleans-chartered Black-owned bank with branches across the city since 1972

Liberty Bank and Trust was chartered in New Orleans in 1972 and has grown through acquisitions into Mississippi, Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee, describing itself as the largest… more

Harlem's African American-operated savings bank, headquartered on West 125th Street

Carver Federal Savings Bank was founded in 1948 by Harlem community leaders to serve Black New Yorkers shut out of mainstream banking. Its corporate headquarters and flagship branch sit at… more

Black-owned Washington bank founded in 1934, main office on Georgia Avenue NW

Industrial Bank was founded by Jesse Mitchell during the Great Depression and opened in August 1934 with six employees, and three generations of the Mitchell family have led it since,… more

South Carolina's only Black-owned bank, founded 1921, with two downtown Columbia branches

Optus Bank began in 1921 as Victory Savings Bank in Columbia's Black business district, and civil rights leader Modjeska Simkins later managed one of its branches. Renamed Optus in 2019,… more

Black-owned bank branch and corporate office on Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles

OneUnited Bank traces its roots to Black-owned banks it absorbed in Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, including Founders National Bank and Family Savings Bank, and is led by chairman and… more

Black-owned community bank and CDFI headquartered on Fayette Street in downtown Baltimore

The Harbor Bank of Maryland opened in 1982 to serve Baltimore neighborhoods where Black residents had been overlooked by mainstream lenders, and co-founder Joseph Haskins Jr. still chairs the board… more

Black-owned community bank headquartered in Third Ward since 1963

Unity National Bank traces its start to 1963, when it opened as Riverside National Bank, and it is headquartered on Blodgett Street in Third Ward. It offers personal and business… more