In a devastating new documentary, a history of lynching is tied to the mysterious death of a black teen, who was found hanging from a swing in 2014
In the summer of 2014, Jacqueline Olive was preparing to wrap up her documentary film on America’s gruesome history of racial lynching, having devoted five years to chronicling its corrosive impact in the south and across the country.
Just as she was about to start editing, news reached her of a disturbing event in the small North Carolina town of Bladenboro. In the early hours of 29 August 2014, a 17-year-old African
American boy named Lennon Lacy had been found hanging from a swing set in an all-white
trailer park about a quarter of a mile from his home.