For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of more than 4,000 African Americans in the United States. As a native Southerner and African American woman who grew up in a community her family helped to integrate, director Jacqueline Olive brings a unique insight into the complexities of race that evolved out of the collective silence of her hometown in Mississippi. This episode of The Stream is about her new documentary Always In Season, and the 3d virtual world she is creating in Second Life to explore issues of healing racism and violence in America.

For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of more than 4,000 African Americans in the United States. As a native Southerner and African American woman who grew up in a community her family helped to integrate, director Jacqueline Olive brings a unique insight into the complexities of race that evolved out of the collective silence of her hometown in Mississippi. This episode of The Stream is about her new documentary Always In Season, and the 3d virtual world she is creating in Second Life to explore issues of healing racism and violence in America.