By Leah Smith As a newcomer to the Pembroke area, I’ve never experienced the festivities surrounding Lumbee Homecoming, a reunion of members of the Lumbee tribe that has been a tradition for over 50 years. I heard tales of collard sandwiches, pageants, and golf carts patrolling the streets, but I...

Billy Oxendine & Locklear Hunt Shine in Gritty Family Drama By Leah Smith Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery has worn many hats during her career. She is an award winning author of multiple books, an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker, and has been a professor at many highly respected universities, including Emory University,...

A scene from the movie “The Zone of Interest.” (A24/TNS) By Harrison Ferger “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.” This is what political theorist Hannah Arendt...

By Harrison Ferger                  Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest American storytellers of all time. With his new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” he takes on a story deeply intertwined with America and its all too violent and predatory foundation. Both mirroring his previous works on the legitimizing...