Elex Michaelson is joined by Civil Rights Attorney Areva Martin. Martin is working to secure reparations for the victims of Section 14, a Palm Springs neighborhood where thousands of families, mostly Black and Brown, saw their homes destroyed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Learn how Areva Martin is working to make Section 14 victims whole.
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During the 15th Anniversary of the Leimart Park Village Book Fair, Areva sat down with Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize winning creator of The 1619 Project for an engaging discussion about the persistence of anti-Black racism and inequality in American life today. As a follow-up, the book THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY continues the conversation as a definitive account of how racism and Black resistance have shaped the nation.
When the Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade was first leaked in May of 2022, I broke down the ways that a decision like this would disproportionately affect women of color. With the recent Supreme Court decision now made official, we are seeing this bitter reality play out. In July 2022, headlines covered
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