The New Black

Community Cinema ~ The New Black

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
  • Library Hall

Race and religion intersect in the battle for same-sex marriage.

A new documentary film by Yoruba Richen.

WINNER! Audience Award for Documentary at the 2013 AFI Film Festival

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar — the black church — and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.The New Black takes viewers into the pews, onto the streets, and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland, charting the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.

Run time: 80 min.

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