About this Event
WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on with author Damario Solomon-Simmons in conversation with Areva Martin.
WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at 7pm.
WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016
HOW:
TICKET w/ BOOK: This ticket guarantees a seat including a signed book available for pick up at the event.
FREE RSVP (No Book Included): This Free RSVP DOES NOT include a copy of the book and entry is based strictly on capacity at the door. Books may be available for purchase in-store.
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About the Book:
WE ALL FEEL IT, THE TEETERING TOWARD A PLACE IN AMERICA FROM WHICH THERE IS NO RETURN. THE BATTLE TO REMAIN HOPEFUL IN SPITE OF INJUSTICE AFTER INJUSTICE. IN THIS POWERFUL STORY OF ONE LAWYER’S FIGHT FOR HIS COMMUNITY, BOTH JUSTICE AND HOPE ARE REDEEMED.
The Greenwood neighborhood of North Tulsa was once a promised land for African Americans, deemed “Black Wall Street.” But on May 31, 1921, the deadliest race massacre in U.S. history sent Greenwood up in flames. At the time, Lessie Randle was just a child running to safety as bullets ricocheted around her. Almost a century later, lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons knocks on her door asking if she’d be willing to run toward justice this time.
In Redeem a Nation, we follow Solomon-Simmons’s fight for justice, from the courtrooms of Tulsa to our nation’s capital, representing three centenarians: the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Documenting a race against the calendar and the courts, Redeem a Nation grapples with the truth about corruption and disenfranchisement in America through this historic legal case for reparations and the deeply moving stories of survivors and descendants of the Massacre.
Yet this isn’t just a story of Tulsa. The community is a microcosm of the continued harm America inflicts through racial violence and economic injustice. The damage of generational poverty and loss of opportunity isn’t some relic of the past. It is happening right now. Redeem a Nation offers a way forward for communities across the nation through systemic change and community love. The Time is now to resist, repair, and redeem a land once promised.
“You think we can win?” Randle asked that day. This story is Solomon-Simmons’s answer.
DAMARIO SOLOMON-SIMMONS, Esq., M.Ed. graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma and became the first African American to receive the Joel Jankowsky Award for most outstanding law graduate. He has been a practicing civil rights attorney for almost 20 years and currently is the Managing Partner of Solomon-Simmons Law, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Justice for Greenwood Foundation, and co-founder of the MVP Foundation. He has been featured on CNN, The View, Good Morning America, ABC News, ESPN, The New York Times, and more. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his beloved wife.
AREVAA MARTIN is the founder and managing partner of Martin & Martin LLP., one of the nation's premier civil rights law firms. Areva Martin is lead counsel in some of the nation’s largest reparations cases and recently reached a landmark reparative justice agreement with the Palm Springs City Council on behalf of the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors. Voted one of LA’s top civil rights attorneys, she has been named a California Super Lawyer for eight years running. She is an award-winning TV and radio talk show host, on-air legal commentator seen regularly on CNN, ABC, network, and cable shows, civil rights attorney, and bestselling author earning accolades including the Telly and Anthem media awards. The founder and president of Special Needs Network, Inc., Areva graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Chicago and Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reparations Club, 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 34.91
