Social Justice Film Festival 2020

BLOCK 1: Health Issues Now

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Power To Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution tells the story of an historic yet little known struggle to secure equal and adequate access to health care for all Americans. The film reveals how the federal government, with crucial support from medical professionals and civil rights activists, leveraged Medicare funding to bring down the Jim Crow hospital system. Narrated by Danny Glover.

  • Year
    2018
  • Runtime
    56 minutes
  • Country
    US
  • Director
    Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal