About United Black Ellument

What United Black Ellument was

United Black Ellument, often shortened to U-BE, began in 2009 as a CDC-funded HIV-prevention peer-education initiative for young Black gay and bisexual men, developed using the Mpowerment model created by Dr. Susan Kegeles's team at the University of California, San Francisco, according toDallas Voice's 2011 reportingand Wikipedia's summary ofLGBTQ culture in Dallas-Fort Worth. A third-party event listing quoting the program's own tagline describes its mission as enabling "young Black, same-gender-loving men ages 18-35 to fulfill their greatest potential for good."

A program, not an independent nonprofit

U-BE was not its own independently incorporated nonprofit. Every source we located describes it as a named program administered by Resource Center Dallas, Inc. (now Resource Center), a 501(c)(3) corporation with EIN 75-1892059. U-BE staff became Resource Center Dallas employees on May 1, 2011, after two years of direct CDC funding ended and Texas Department of State Health Services funding took over, per Dallas Voice's reporting at the time. We checked IRS Nonprofit Explorer, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Texas Comptroller's tax-exempt search and found no independent registry record showing United Black Ellument as its own separately incorporated or separately tax-exempt entity. That's an absence finding from the searches we ran, not a certified registry lookup, and it should be treated as low confidence until independently reconfirmed.

Resource Center Of Dallas, Inc. itself is an active, currently operating nonprofit. Its most recent available IRS filing onProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, for fiscal year 2024, shows approximately $21.9 million in revenue, $22 million in expenses, and $34.6 million in total assets.

Programming U-BE ran

By June 2019, U-BE, serving Black gay and bisexual men ages 18 to 29, shared a Resource Center facility with sister programs FUSE (men 18 to 29 of all races) and GenderBrave (transgender and gender-nonconforming young adults 18 to 29), all operating on the CDC's Mpowerment HIV-prevention model, perDallas Voice. U-BE ran an annualRed Tie Affair & B.L.A.C.K. Awardsrecognizing Black LGBT community leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area; one documented instance took place on December 4, 2021. It also ran a Vogue Academy teaching ballroom culture and history, documented in aDallas Voice video and print featurepublished February 22, 2023, featuring Empowerment Programs Manager Trés Brown and instructor Jrock.

The end of the U-BE name

On October 8, 2025, Resource Center consolidated United Black Ellument, along with seven other identity-based programs, Youth First, Grupo Orgullo Hispano, FUSE, GenderBrave, SapphiQ, THRIVE, and CAFÉ, into a new umbrella brand called Community Wellness, perDallas Voice's reporting. Resource Center stated that existing weekly programming and annual events would continue, but the individual program names, including United Black Ellument, would no longer be used. That happened roughly two years after ubedallas.org itself appears to have stopped being actively updated. The domain going stale and the U-BE program name being retired are two separate events, and we're not treating them as the same thing.

This domain's history with U-BE

The domain ubedallas.org was first registered on January 14, 2010. Research using theInternet Archive's Wayback Machinefound captures from 2010 through 2023 showing a coherent historical identity connected to United Black Ellument. That material was used to understand the domain's history; none of the former site's writing or design has been copied into Dallas In Common. Archive captures can be incomplete, so we treat them as supporting evidence rather than as a complete record.

We're distinguishing two tiers of evidence on this page. Confirmed: Dallas Voice's contemporaneous reporting and Resource Center's own filings on ProPublica. Lower confidence: Wayback-based archive research, which describes what the domain used to show but may be incomplete.

Dallas In Common's relationship to United Black Ellument

This domain now hosts Dallas In Common. We want to be direct about what that does and doesn't mean: Dallas In Common is independent of United Black Ellument. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by U-BE, Resource Center, or Community Wellness, and we are not a continuation of U-BE's work, name, branding, events, or mailing lists in any way. This statement is our own disclosure about current ownership and intent; unlike the historical claims above, it isn't something a third-party source can verify, since it's a statement about us, not about them. Where U-BE appears elsewhere on this site, it's referenced only as a documented part of Dallas's history, never as something this publication continues.