Inheritance Interrupted: Black Massacres and the Economics of Violence

Most people know Tulsa and Rosewood. Far fewer know how many Black communities across the country were attacked, displaced, stripped of land and wealth, and then largely erased from public memory.

Inheritance Interrupted: Black Massacres and the Economics of Violence is a Martha’s Vineyard prosecco brunch hosted by The Black Massacre Project and sponsored by the National Bar Association, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, the Garden State Bar Association, The Greenwood Trust, and BankBlack USA

The program will bring together attorneys, historians, journalists, philanthropic leaders, and financial professionals for an illuminating discussion on the enduring legacy of racial violence and its far-reaching implications for law, wealth, capital, and public memory.

The conversation will examine how Black massacres were enabled through law and policy, how they destroyed land, wealth, and intergenerational opportunity, and how legal and financial institutions repeatedly failed to repair the harm. It will also consider how these histories continue to shape communities, institutions, and economic life today.

Inheritance Interrupted moves beyond awareness toward accountability, investment, and meaningful economic response. The gathering is designed to create space for informed dialogue, relationship-building, and sustained engagement around what repair requires now.

The program will be followed by a book signing with bestselling author Damario Solomon-Simmons for his new book, Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America.