One of the great honors on our 18-month (thus far) Story of America journey was meeting Police Chief Kevin Murphy of Montgomery, AL. Recently at the White House, President Obama recognized and thanked Chief Murphy for an act of reconciliation that we documented in the video above.
 

The exchange too place at the St. Patrick’s Day reception (Murphy is Irish American), when President Obama gave Murphy a personal “thank you” for his continued efforts to improve the relationship between law officers and communities of color. [MORE]

Filmed in January 2013 with Annabel Park for Story of America, this is the most compelling of our 16 videos filmed in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, CT.  MORE: http://www.storyofamerica.org/darren 

Video by Eric Byler, Annabel Park, & Michael Levin for Story of America.

Are the stories about "voter fraud" seen in conservative media outlets based on actual cases of fraud, or speculation about what could occur?

http://www.storyofamerica.org Filmed by Eric Byler & Annabel Park in March of 2013, near Selma, Alabama.

Did you know that 1.3 billion people in the world live without electricity? The majority of these households use kerosine in can for light. I am very proud of this video, which I made with Chris Franks of Starto.tv during my year in Denver. —Eric Byler

This is one of many videos we created to document the Moral Monday movement.  On this day, 101 people were arrested, but as you can see there is a lot more to a Moral Monday action. I've compiled our best Moral Monday videos from 2013 here.

Part 2 of our "Battle for Belhaven" hospital series. More at http://www.storyofamerica.org/belhaven1

Of the tens of thousands of people who attended the Feb. 8, 2014 Moral March on Raleigh, who had the most fun? We may have captured that person in this video. Let us know who you think it was.

Filmed with Annabel Park for Story of America in early 2013.

MORE: http://www.storyofamerica.org/augustine_carter 

Filmed in April 2011, this is my favorite of the Coffee Party videos made during the period between 9500 Liberty and Story of America.  It's a personal editorial set to the music from the Flobots' song "Handlebars."  As you can see, the perspective we offer later became a big part of our cultural and political discourse, thanks in great part to the Occupy movement. Coffee Party's 327 million Facebook impressions that year probably provided an assist.