Special screening of “The New Black” by Giard Fellow Yoruba Richen

On Monday, March 3rd at 6:30 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets), in the Elebash Recital Hall, there will be a free screening of the 2011-2012 Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship winning project The New Black by Yoruba Richen.

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 recent marriage equality movement and the fight over LGBT civil rights. For a preview of this film visit http://www.newblackfilm.com/the-film.

Many of you got to see an early version of this film at our 2012 Benefit and back then we knew something special was in the works. Now is your chance to see the finished film and celebrate Yoruba’s achievement. We are delighted that she will be joining us that evening to talk about the making of this film that was recently nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.

It is thanks to your support that in 2011, The Robert Giard Foundation was able to award Yoruba a $7,500 fellowship. You were thus an early funder and helped her secure additional support from the Ford Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The Sundance Documentary Fund, the 2012 Creative Promise Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, and finally, a Guggenheim Fellowship.

This special screening is presented in cooperation with the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York Graduate Center.