The death of high school football star Lennon Lacy rattled the small town of Bladenboro, which is 80% white and 18% black. Federal authorities are now reinvestigating the death after Lennon’s family suggested a racial element: The 17-year-old was possibly killed for dating a white woman.
The slow southern pace of this small town makes it feel like time can stand still in these parts.
So do the racial epithets, the Klan rallies and the latest affront to blacks in the rural town of 1,700: The suspicious Aug. 29 hanging of Lennon Lacy, a local high school football star.
The stunning death was ruled a suicide. His relatives suspect a lynching.
Federal authorities are now reinvestigating the death after Lennon’s family suggested a racial element: The 17-year-old was possibly killed for dating a white woman.
The slow southern pace of this small town makes it feel like time can stand still in these parts.
So do the racial epithets, the Klan rallies and the latest affront to blacks in the rural town of 1,700: The suspicious Aug. 29 hanging of Lennon Lacy, a local high school football star.
The stunning death was ruled a suicide. His relatives suspect a lynching.
Federal authorities are now reinvestigating the death after Lennon’s family suggested a racial element: The 17-year-old was possibly killed for dating a white woman.
