• ELIXHER
• On October 3, 2013

In its most recent newsbreak, NoMoreDownLow.TV attends the L.A. premiere of the award-winning documentary, The New Black. The film tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. NoMoreDownLow.TV talks with producer/director Yoruba Richen, and others featured in the film including gospel music star B. Slade, formerly known as Tonex, and National Black Justice Coalition’s Executive Director, Sharon Lettman-Hicks. Find out how to bring the film to a theater near you here.

The New Black 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 and 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 and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.

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