'Always in Season' explores an America stained by lynchings and a legacy of racism
by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Jan 30, 2019
3 minutes
The 911 call came from beneath a smokestack off a rural highway: "I have a man hanging from a swing set."
The caller grew panicked, her voice cracked. She cried out to God. When the police arrived on that morning in 2014, they found Lennon Lacy, a high school football linebacker, dangling by a belt his family said was not his own. Murmurs began that he may have been lynched, rousing sins that stretch back to slavery days, and forcing Bladenboro, N.C., a town once known for turpentine and cotton mills, to confront things it'd rather
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