Herkimer College to show “The New Black”

Herkimer College will be showing “The New Black: LGBT Rights and African American Communities” on Thursday, November 13 at 5:00 pm in the Robert McLaughlin College Center, Sarkus Busch Theater.

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 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 film is sponsored by the BLSU and GSA and is open to the public free of charge.