Should We Give Up the Fight for Reparations? | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s SoloPod, Angela Rye is joined by Damario Solomon-Simmons to discuss Mother Fletcher’s passing. Viola “Mother” Fletcher was one of the last survivors of the Tulsa Massacre and (with Damario’s help) a powerful advocate for reparations. Damario walks us through the ongoing fight for reparations PLUS a call to action for your holiday season: capture your families oral histories. We’ll get some tips on how to be intentional about asking your elders about their past.
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. His work prompted the first-ever U.S. Department of Justice review of the massacre, helped secure the City of Tulsa’s $105 million Greenwood Trust, and played a key role in restoring citizenship rights to Black Creek Indians.
CORRECTION: Mr. Solomon-Simmons states in this episode that reparations have been paid by the U.S.A. to the "State of Israel." Mr. Solomon-Simmons has alerted NLP that that is not factual, he meant "Holocaust Survivors."
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Angela Rye, a host of Native Land Pod, and it is Solo Pod Day. |
| 0:21.2 | There is so much going on in the world and we will get into so many of those topics on Thursday for our main show. |
| 0:28.3 | Today I have the opportunity, the privilege and the pleasure to speak to someone who is a dear brother, dear friend to me. |
| 0:35.9 | He is a civil and human rights attorney. He has long represented |
| 0:40.8 | the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, also known as Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, |
| 0:48.1 | or Greenwood, as many of you know as well. He is the founder and executive director of justice |
| 0:54.0 | for Greenwood. And today we're |
| 0:55.7 | going to get into a discussion about reparations, his upcoming book that will be available for |
| 1:01.5 | pre-order very soon. And so let's bring DeMario Solomon Simmons to the stage. Thank you so much. |
| 1:08.7 | Hey, Dee. What's going on, Angela? Good to see you as always. Thank you. Good to see you virtually, too. Thank you so much. Hey, Dee. What's going on, Angela? Good to see you as always. |
| 1:12.4 | Thank you. Good to see you virtually, too. Well, first, I want to hear about this new book that you are |
| 1:18.3 | dropping because it is so timely, so important. We are living in a day and age where, you know, |
| 1:25.7 | fact-free debates, alternative facts, erasing of history. |
| 1:31.2 | So Redeem a Nation feels like a really appropriate title for a really challenging time. |
| 1:35.8 | Talk to us a little bit about the book. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, I'm really excited about this. |
| 1:38.8 | Been working over four years, Redeem a Nationbook.com. |
| 1:42.0 | You can go there. |
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