Reparations Then, Reparations Now, Reparations Forever | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today’s SoloPod with Angela Rye starts with a quick update on the redistricting wars: South Carolinas’ and Alabamas’ new maps have been declined. Then our guest, Damario Solomon-Simmons, joins us for a conversation about reparations.
You can pre-order Damario’s debut book, Redeem A Nation, where books are sold.
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons is a civil and human rights attorney, movement strategist, and author. He is the Founder and President of Justice for Greenwood and serves as legal counsel for the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. You can order Damario's new book, Redeem a Nation, at https://www.redeemanation.com/ or wherever books are sold.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lamb Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Native Lamb Pod, a solo pod edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm your host, Angela Rye. |
| 0:19.0 | And today I'm joining you all with a bit, |
| 0:22.3 | just a bit of good news. We'll take it at this point because, you know, we are getting hit |
| 0:27.3 | and stretched on every side. And so today, what we are hearing from Alabama is something |
| 0:37.1 | that is pretty significant. So the New York Times released an article |
| 0:44.0 | today saying that the court rejected Alabama's house maps calling it unfair for black voters. |
| 0:50.0 | Now, with all of the redistricting news that's going on, I know it may be hard to follow. |
| 0:56.6 | This is in reference to the maps that were presented in the Milligan case. |
| 1:02.7 | Initially, Alabama had one black member of Congress, Terry Sewell, and after a hard-fought legal battle, a second congressional |
| 1:12.4 | seat was added for Shemari figures. And what the court decided today is that the initial |
| 1:20.5 | map, the one that just would have benefited Congresswoman Terry Sewell, is not fair to black |
| 1:26.5 | voters. What we know is in the South, |
| 1:29.4 | black people make up 30 to 40 something percent of the population. I'm not sure of the exact |
| 1:34.5 | numbers in Alabama. I'm going to do better of having those numbers readily available to you all. |
| 1:39.6 | But what I want you to know is that this was a three-panel federal district court that ruled in this case. |
| 1:48.1 | So the Supreme Court remanded it back to this district court. |
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