"Black Lives Matter" (5 minutes)
In the wake of recent raised awareness about racial injustice and police brutality, the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP sponsored a march for racial justice on December 13, 2014. Similar marches took place that day in Washington, DC, New York City, and several other locations throughout the United States. Media Edge producer Michael Stavros was at the Sacramento event and produced this video.
"To Prison for Poverty" (13.5 minutes)
To Prison for Poverty documents the system that enables private probation companies to profit from charging excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail.
"An Evening with Dr. Joycelyn Elders" (70 minutes)
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, 15th Surgeon General of the United States and first African-American woman Surgeon General, spoke to a Sacramento audience on
September 5, 2014. Her presentation was made possible by the Bob & Dorrie Moon Lecture Series at St. Mark's United Methodist Church, and was recorded by a Media Edge crew for later telecast.
"When Abortion Was Illegal" (28 minutes)
This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act.
