Episode #399 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV during week of December 29 - January 4) includes:
"A Buffalo's Trail of Tears" (6 minutes)
A short video about the annual hazing of the last wild and free buffalo, by the Buffalo Field Campaign.
"The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation" (1 hour, 48 minutes)
The gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. This feature length movie explores their extraordinary struggle for justice while incarcerated in Angola, a former slave plantation.