Shipley Street

Educational attainment has always been used as a way to level up economically. In Jacqueline Fraizer’s “Shipley St.,” a Black school girl is sent to an all-white Catholic school with her family’s hope for more. When she arrives, Lana Wilson (Leslie Smith) is confronted with the present reality of being continuously punished with silent treatment from her classmates, harsh discipline from administrators, and the tolls of everyday racism from all. Fraizer’s film is a forceful display on the ways racism shapes white institutions and the troubles Black children of all ages must carry.