Freedmen News

The American Freedmen Legal Fund and the Freedmen Reparations Fund Trust have formally escalated concerns regarding Houston Restaurant Weeks and the continued exclusion of Soul Food as a standalone cuisine category. This issue began with a customer complaint identifying that Houston Restaurant Weeks listed numerous cuisine categories while failing to recognize Soul Food as its own category. After review, outreach, follow-up emails, contact form submissions, sponsor accountabi

The American Freedmen Legal Fund has now released our Compliance and Safety Accountability Report regarding the Frisco ISD track meet incident involving Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf. This report was not written to relitigate the criminal case. It was written to address a separate public concern: whether Frisco ISD had proper event control, safety procedures, supervision, emergency planning, and accountability measures in place during a school-sponsored athletic event wh

In every community, people want to know who they are supporting. For Verified Freedmen, that question goes beyond products and services—it is about supporting businesses owned by descendants of American slaves who have completed the Freedmen Nation verification process and are actively investing back into our population. The Freedmen Eco Locator was created to help make that possible. The Freedmen Eco Locator serves as a centralized directory where Verified Freedmen-owned bus