Hazel Scott & Charles Mingus

I love this song.  I love her.

bravo....nuff said..

I heard an interview on npr I don't recall Adam Clayton Powell 3rd saying his parents were "communists'.If they symphathised with communist ideas that was their prerogative the U.S. supposedly has freedom of speech though it basically applies to certain folks & not others A lot of U.S. citizens have trouble understanding democracy let alone other govt. systems. Joe Wilson is in the Sons of the Confederacy but thats pro-democracy,to some while Ms.Sotomayor quit her Latina Womens club.

lol

Her famous husband and she were indeed communists. You can not get around it. It hurt her career. she was amazingly talented. Wish it were not true ,but it is.

They were not communists. But if you insist that any Black person who desires equitable treatment in America is communist, then please count me in that august group as well. I insist.

from a televised performance to raise money for the March of Dimes.

Beautiful, really moving.

my name is Hazel

I believe she was the first or 2nd Black woman to have her own television show. Eleanor Collins in Vancouver was about the same time. Then she was smeared by Mc Carthy her show was canceled and it was over ten years before Pearl Baily got a show.