"Islamophobia Killed My Brother" (15 minutes)
On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat's brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor's sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator's story, that he killed them over a traffic dispute, went unquestioned by the media and police until Barakat spoke out at a press conference, calling the murders what they really were: hate crimes. As she reflects on how she and her family reclaimed control of their narrative, Barakat calls on us to speak up when we witness hateful bigotry and express our allyship with those who face discrimination.
"An Evening with Barry Scheck: Justice for the Innocent" (1 hour, 32 minutes)
Attorney Barry Scheck, DNA expert and co-founder of the Innocence Project, delivered a moving presentation to a capacity crowd at St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Sacramento, as part of the Moon Lecture Series. The Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. A Media Edge crew recorded this event on September 16, 2016.
"Your Smartphone is a Civil Rights Issue" (8 minutes)
The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. "If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem," he says. "It's not just a cybersecurity problem — it's a civil rights problem."