The Drax Files

For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of over 4,700 African Americans that often included hours of torture, mutilation and photographs. The documentary "Always in Season" examines the impact this form of racial violence still has on Americans today with intimate accounts from spectators, their relatives, and family members of lynching victims.Developed at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco over the course of 10 days in early June, the proof-of-concept "Always in Season Island" in Second Life gives visitors a personal sense of the choices and circumstances that brought men, women, and children out to watch lynchings in every state across the U.S. but four.As visitors learn about this intrinsic part of American history and share the experience in an interactive environment, students and educators can gain strategies for preventing targeting and group violence in their own communities today.Stay tuned for more!