Sarah Nagem

1 week ago | theassemblync.com | Sarah Nagem

Kathleen DuVal has a lot to say about early American history. Her latest book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, spans more than 700 pages and walks readers through early civilizations to a rebirth of Indigenous culture and tradition. In May, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history.

2 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Sarah Nagem

This story was originally published by the Border Belt Independent and The Assembly. Ed Goodwin quickly took a liking to Leon Locklear when the two men met more than a decade ago. It might have seemed an unlikely friendship: Goodwin, a Chowan County native, was an up-and-coming Republican in North Carolina politics. Locklear was the chief of the Tuscarora Nation’s Maxton longhouse in Robeson County 220 miles away, then a well-established Democratic stronghold.

1 month ago | theassemblync.com | Sarah Nagem

Ed Goodwin quickly took a liking to Leon Locklear when the two men met more than a decade ago. It might have seemed an unlikely friendship: Goodwin, a Chowan County native, was an up-and-coming Republican in North Carolina politics. Locklear was the chief of the Tuscarora Nation’s Maxton longhouse in Robeson County 220 miles away, then a well-established Democratic stronghold.   But Locklear reminded Goodwin of the Native Americans he knew as a child in the northeastern corner of the state.

1 month ago | borderbelt.org | Sarah Nagem

By Sarah NagemEd Goodwin quickly took a liking to Leon Locklear when the two men met more than a decade ago. It might have seemed an unlikely friendship: Goodwin, a Chowan County native, was an up-and-coming Republican in North Carolina politics. Locklear was the chief of the Tuscarora Nation’s Maxton longhouse in Robeson County 220 miles away, then a well-established Democratic stronghold.

1 month ago | borderbelt.org | Sarah Nagem

By Sarah Nagem and Heidi Perez-Moreno [email protected] was a familiar scene along Interstate 95: A construction crew was toiling into the early-morning hours on March 28, 2019, and local law enforcement officers helped guide drivers through the work zone. James Obershea, then a captain with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, and Fairmont Police Chief Jon Edwards decided additional officers were needed to direct traffic at the Robeson County site.