Owner(s) Civitas Media Publisher M. Joseph Craig Founded 1870 (1870) | Founder(s) W.S. McDiamid Editor Donnie Douglas | |
Headquarters 2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US | ||
The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning.
Notable events
The newspaper attracted national attention when on 1 February 1988 two Native Americans entered the newspaper's office and armed took twenty hostages. The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in anticipation of a summit between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev.
References
The Robesonian Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA