The Reprisal

Julian T. Pierce: The Lumbee Tribe and Robeson County, NC

November is National Native American Heritage Month. This installment of The Reprisal aims to acknowledge the plight of the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, and shed light on horrendous events affecting people of color in Robeson County. Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-14-mn-1967-story.html https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/notable-narrative-nicole-lucas-haimes-and-who-killed-julian-pierce/ https://apnews.com/article/97865abdb913156ac8e200ebda973f42 https://apnews.com/article/0c7571f792e9931e699f52781c3687aa https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/joe-freeman-britt-prosecutor-who-sent-dozens-to-death-row-dies-at-80/2016/04/15/b246f27e-025b-11e6-b823-707c79ce3504_story.html https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/03/30/Slain-Lumbee-Indian-activist-Julian-T-Pierce-was-eulogized/3342575701200/ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jSxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kz0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=5779%2C3832138 Brower, Montgomery, and Bill Shaw. “The Murder of Julian Pierce Provokes Grief and Grievances in Troubled Robeson County.” People Weekly 29.15 (18 April 1988): 60-62, 65

Lennon Lacy - Bladenboro, NC

DISCLAIMER: This recording is from 2020, and there have been significant developments since then. Updates are coming in a future installment of The Reprisal. Intro/Outro music: Arron Garcia (IG: @ace.leone) Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/-sp-north-carolina-teenager-suspicious-death-lennon-lacy https://www.wect.com/story/26809568/911-call-released-in-lennon-lacy-death/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/22/north-carolina-teenager-suicide-ruling-challenged-lennon-lacy https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-teen-hangs-cops-shrug-no-evidence-collected-on-lennon-lacy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/19/lennon-lacy-hanging-north-carolina-fbi-hate-crime https://www.facingsouth.org/2014/12/the-strange-death-of-lennon-lacy-another-lynching-.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2878148/White-girlfriend-31-lynched-17-year-old-says-believes-relationship-led-murder-reveals-warned-not-date-black-man-Crackertown.html https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2014/12/12/fbi-probing-nc-teens-hanging-death/20313153/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-investigates-suspicious-death-of-north-carolina-teen-lennon-lacy/2014/12/19/02499522-8609-11e4-a702-fa31ff4ae98e_story.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1312954-autopsy-lennon-lacy https://www.bladenjournal.com/top-stories/7990/petition-asks-that-lennon-lacy-hanging-case-be-reopened https://www.bladenjournal.com/top-stories/1280/one-year-later-still-no-answers