A 21st-Century Lynching Film Explores the Legacy of Racial Violence

This 2019 festival fave shines a light on race in modern-day America

A still from “Always in Season,” which won a 2019 Sundance Festival Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency. Images courtesy of Jacqueline Olive.

Southern swingsets bear strange fruit.

On August 29, 2014, 17-year-old high schooler Lennon Lacy was found dead and hanging from playground equipment near his home in Bladenboro, North Carolina. His death was…