The New Black: Film looks at marriage issue in Black community

Flashback to Election Day 2008, when voters in California elected the country's first Black president while denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Exit polls reported an overwhelming majority of the state's African-American voters decided "yes" on Proposition 8, enraging mainstream LGBT activists and supporters nationwide—many of whom quickly noted the dissonance and blamed blacks.

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