Black Is the Color of My Voice

Mena Bordeaux, a celebrated singer, has shut herself away in one room for a few days, shaken by her father’s death and trying to reach his spirit. Memory pulls her back through her life: a gifted child in a churchgoing family, a young pianist with her future mapped out for her, a singer swept into the Civil Rights Movement. Between the recollections she sings, and the songs argue with the stories until she has to face what she has been avoiding.