Podcasters to discuss crimes against Indigenous people at ECU event
Chelsea Locklear, left, and Brittany Hunt host “The Red Justice Project” podcast and will be part of an ECU virtual event on Nov. 16. (Contributed photos)
East Carolina University soon will welcome Brittany Hunt and Chelsea Locklear, two North Carolina members of the Lumbee tribe and hosts of the podcast “The Red Justice Project,” for a virtual event with Dr. Kirstin L. Squint. Squint is the Thomas Harriot College of Art and Sciences Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Native American literature specialist. The event begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 16, via Zoom. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
The mission of Hunt and Locklear’s podcast “is to bring awareness to the many cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in North America, and the way we are erased in American media,” they said.
Squint will interview Hunt and Locklear about how the podcast came about and lead them in a timely discussion of specific true crime cases of Indigenous people, including their season one finale on Faith Hedgepeth. Hedgepeth was a Haliwa-Saponi woman and UNC-Chapel Hill student who was killed in 2012. A recent break in the 9-year-old cold case has led to the arrest of a suspect in her death, as reported by WRAL.
Hunt and Locklear will share their thoughts and views on how the podcast impacts audiences in eastern North Carolina and around the globe.
To register for the event, visit the ECU events calendar. For more information about Hunt, Locklear and their podcast, visit The Red Justice Project. Squint’s Whichard Professorship is hosted by Harriot College’s Department of English and the program in gender studies, housed in the Department of Sociology.
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Land Acknowledgement for our Programs and Buildings
Indigenous Peoples’ History Resource Guide