Jacqueline Frazier

Lana Wilson has trouble in school because of racist discrimination, but at first, her parents don't believe her.

Gloria sits quietly at a bus stop at night, waiting. Memories from her youth suddenly flood and take control of her thoughts. A dreamlike, nonlinear narrative unfolds and binds us to “Dre,” a young man experiencing an intense personal crisis. What follows is a brief record of caregiving in the world.

Jacqueline Frazier’s Azz Izz Jazz showcases jazz legend Billie Harris who performs in studio with a quartet featuring Harris on soprano sax. Among the songs performed is “I Want Some Water,” a composition that Harris, in voice-over, credits, as with all his songs, to his young children who were his inspiration.

A woman remembers an unwanted teenage pregnancy.