What lives have been lost for the gain of others?
Across the Tracks explores the current state of poverty-stricken communities that line the Upper Pee Dee and Lumber River in southeastern North Carolina. Home to a large population of native Lumbee Indians and African Americans, poverty rates are among the highest in the state at 30 percent. Despite the ADA and Civil Rights Act, ethnocentrism and inequality still persists. Many live in "welfare" motels, access laundromats for clean clothes, walk to work if able, and live without AC. Depictions expose the viewer to what is beneath the shiny white American dream, where pro-police sentiment and the Trump political landscape only further harm minorities.