Freedmen News

As the Soulaan Autochthonous Identity Classification gains visibility, more people are beginning to understand what Soulaan truly represents: a culturally distinct, lineage-based identity authored by Dwayne Coleman II, rooted in the autochthonous evolution of a specific people on U.S. soil. But with this growth has come a critical point of clarification: Identifying as Soulaan does not replace the need for Freedmen Verification. And for anyone whose lineage ties back to U.S.

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