FREE FILM SCREENING!

Q&A with the film's protagonist, Jan Frazier

Monday, Sept 15, 2025, 6:30-8pm ET, 3:30-5pm PT (please note the event starts earlier than usual)

MY FATHER’S NAME: A documentary film by Susanna Styron

RT: 20 minutes

"A gripping and essential exploration of race, accountability, and the far-reaching consequences of family secrets.” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Years after Lee Ed Frazier's death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. As she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan learns that this specific lynching was iconic in American history, because photos of it were the first ever to be published in a national publication. Both Time and Life magazines carried the story and the photos, as they reported on the anti-lynching bill that was before Congress at that very moment. Additionally, she realizes that no names of the lynchers were ever published. Even the photographer was protected by a cloak of agreed-upon anonymity. Shaken by this stark reflection of white privilege and the brutality it sought to minimize, Jan must now reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, find a way to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.

After the screening of this film, we'll be joined by Jan Frazier for Q&A. 

NOTE: This event begins at 6:30pm Eastern, earlier than our usual ARCN events.

Meet Jan Frazier:

Jan Frazier grew up in Miami in the 1960s. When in her thirties, she learned of her family's participation in a 1937 lynching. Jan moved to New England in her twenties and currently lives in Vermont. She is the grateful mother of two grown children. The author of several books, she offers guidance to spiritual seekers.

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