From 1997 to 2002, Aiyetoro served as the chief legal consultant for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA). In this role she was also part of the "Alexander" v. "Oklahoma" legal team, led by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, who in the early 2000s sued the state of Oklahoma on behalf of the descendants of the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the case.