{"id":7085,"date":"2024-01-04T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:55:08","slug":"lowerys-new-film-lumbeeland-explores-impact-of-drug-trade-on-lumbee-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2024\/01\/04\/lowerys-new-film-lumbeeland-explores-impact-of-drug-trade-on-lumbee-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowery&#8217;s New Film &#8216;Lumbeeland&#8217; Explores Impact of Drug Trade on Lumbee Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2024\/01\/lumbeeland.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/lowery-malinda-maynor.html\">Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery<\/a>, Cahoon Family Professor of American History, has written and produced a new short film, titled <em>Lumbeeland<\/em>. With an all-Native crew and cast (the first film written, produced, and starring members of the Lumbee tribe), <em>Lumbeeland<\/em> explores the impact of the drug trade on Lumbee communities in Lowery&#8217;s birthplace of Robeson county, North Carolina. The film will premiere at the Lumbee Film Festival in July 2024, and the producers are in the midst of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fundraising.fracturedatlas.org\/lumbeeland-film-project\/campaigns\/6032?fbclid=IwAR1-DwuLBHnEPZ0ksQMF_Zo-mxSkjW1JSzwsxTuPPIX_GojEOqIKTqJy7yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fundraising campaign<\/a>\u00a0to support its release to wider audiences.\u00a0Read a great piece about the origins and aims of the films <a href=\"https:\/\/borderbelt.org\/lumbeeland-film-explores-drug-culture\/\">here<\/a>, and watch the trailer below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LUMBEELAND Trailer (Nov 2023) - 2:06\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/886288740?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"730\" height=\"304\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Cahoon Family Professor of American History, has written and produced a new short film, titled Lumbeeland. With an all-Native crew and cast (the first film written, produced, and starring members of the Lumbee tribe), Lumbeeland explores the impact of the drug trade on Lumbee communities in Lowery&#8217;s birthplace of Robeson county, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-humanities","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}