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Yoruba Richen’s The New Black, a documentary about African-American attitudes toward gay marriage, has received the AFI Docs film festival’s audience award for best feature.

— Hollywood Reporter

Congratulations are in order for Yoruba Richen, whose feature documentary, The New Black, picked up the Audience Award for Best Feature at the AFI DOCS film festival, in Silver Spring, MD.

— Indie Wire

This year's Audience Award for Best Feature went to The New Black directed by Yoruba Richen. T

— Yahoo News

This year's Audience Award for Best Feature went to The New Black directed by Yoruba Richen.

— Bloomberg Business Week

This year's Audience Award for Best Feature went to The New Black directed by Yoruba Richen.

— CNBC

Some of the films selected for AFI Docs, the annual documentary film festival formerly known as Silverdocs, look like they follow conventional patterns but instead transcend their paragraph-long synopses.

— Washington Post

In 1930 Detroit was the fastest growing city in the world. Today it's the fastest-shrinking city, with families fleeing every day.

— USA Today

On Monday, May 27, PBS Independent Lens airs an important film, Detropia, that explores the crisis in Detroit. Here are some issues presented in the documentary.

— Yahoo News

In the documentary Seeking Asian Female, filmmaker Debbie Lum follows a 60-year-old white parking attendant named Steven as he eventually persuades Sandy -- a 30-year-old office worker from China -- to come to the U.S. to be his wife.

— Huffington Post

In her first feature-length film, Seeking Asian Female, which airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET on PBS's Independent Lens , Lum gets drawn into the complicated relationship of a 60-year-old white man and his 30-year-old mail-order bride.

— ABC