Ms. Hazel Scott, the captivating and brilliant jazz and classical pianist, singer and actress during the 1940’s and 50’s will be the featured speaker at the ENL!GHTEN meeting in March.  She will talk about how she, as a performer, was targeted during the McCarthy era for her involvement in civil rights activities which included refusing to play in venues where Black and White audiences were separated.  She was quoted in Time Magazine saying, “Why would anyone come to hear me, a Negro, and refuse to sit beside someone just like me?”  

She will also share how she put her career on the line by boldly standing up to a Columbia movie producer and in 1950, being the first African American to host her own national music and variety television show, The Hazel Scott Show!

She was married to the Rev Adam Clayton Powell.  They were known as a “Power Couple” in their day.   

Zelda Foxall has been doing in-character vignettes of historically significant African American Women since 2008, when she co-founded the performing arts company “Cause It’s Art.”