Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the voice of Hazel Scott.

Starring:

Anne Jackson, Bobby Short, David Thomson, Don Hewitt, Eli Wallach, Harry Belafonte, Jack Lemmon, Joanne Woodward, Lee Grant, Mark Rydell, Martin Scorsese, Michael Feinstein, Mike Dann, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Bogdanovich, Quincy Jones, Richard Schickel, Tony Bennett, Yoko Ono

Genre:

Biography, Documentary, History, Music, Romance