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For years, consumer DNA companies have pushed a comforting narrative: “You come from Africa, so Africa is your biological home.” It sounds good. It feels connecting. But organ science—kidneys, hearts, lungs, livers, marrow—tells a completely different story. Freedmen consistently match other Freedmen inside the United States, not donors in Africa. And when Freedmen relocate to African countries based on a DNA test, the medical system forces them back to the U.S. the moment th

On December, 2025, the Freedmen Reparations Fund Trust (FRFT) and the American Freedmen Legal Fund (AFLF) initiated a coordinated national action to correct a long-standing scientific and regulatory problem affecting millions of descendants of U.S. chattel slavery. For the first time, FRFT issued formal written notices to: 1. Every major commercial DNA testing company , including Ancestry 23andMe FamilyTreeDNA MyHeritage LivingDNA African Ancestry, Inc. 2. Multiple federal ag

Public debates about identity often overlook one crucial reality: every family line has its own documented story , and no single narrative applies to all descendants of U.S. chattel slavery. Too many conversations rely on assumptions, not records. That’s why genealogy — real document-based genealogy — is the foundation of accurate verification. One of the most common misconceptions is the claim that “being enslaved means you must be from Africa.” That idea collapses instantly