An Evening with The Black AIDS Institute and Sheryl Lee Ralph

February 26, 2006 (Press Release) -- 2R's Entertainment & Media

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Ra-Fael Blanco
2R's Entertainment & Media
646-326-4803/TwoRsEnt@aol.com

The Black AIDS Institute and award-wining actress Sheryl Lee Ralph Team up for an Informational Forum on "AIDS", on Wednesday,
March 1, 2006 at 6:00 PM
at the LGBT Community Center.
Sheryl Lee Ralph will perform selections from her highly acclaimed one-woman show "Sometimes I Cry: The Loves, Lives, and Losses of Women Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS".

(Literature/Art and Interviews Are Available Upon Request)

Where & When
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
Lerner Auditorium
New York, NY 10011

March 1, 2006
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

2006 is a crossroad year in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed AIDS cases in the US, the 10th anniversary of the “AIDS cocktails” that dramatically cut down the death rates for people with AIDS. Today AIDS in America is a Black disease. Nobody wants to say it. But the numbers speak for themselves. No matter what lens you use to look at AIDS in America—gender, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, or region of the country where you reside—Black people bear the brunt of this pandemic and rapidly no one else cares that we are dying. If we are to be saved, we will have to save ourselves.

Phill Wilson
Executive Director, Black AIDS Institute

"Sometimes I Cry" is a one-woman show written and conceived by award winning actress and honored AIDS activist, Sheryl Lee Ralph. This moving and provocative show was inspired by the real life stories of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Ms. Ralph becomes each one of these characters, breathing life into them and their stories with every move and simple gesture.

Sheryl Lee Ralph possesses a wealth of talent that has been hidden for far too long; Actress, Singer, Producer, and now writer! When "Sometimes I Cry" was initially presented at the National Black Women and HIV/AIDS Conference in Los Angeles, December 2005, the show was met with the most extraordinary out pouring of love and acceptance.

“These women’s voices have been silent for too long in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and must be heard.” -- S.L. Ralph

Founded in 1999, the Black AIDS Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank in the US focusing exclusively on Black people. The Institute’s mission is to stop AIDS in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing traditional Black Institutions, leaders and individuals in efforts to confront AIDS. The institute offers training, technical assistance and capacity building, disseminates information and provides advocacy and mobilization from a Uniquely and unapologetically Black point of view."

NOTE: If you are planning to attend please send an email to TwoRsEnt@aol.com and let me know if you are affiliated with any media/press outlets, so that proper accommodations can be provided for you and your production crew.

Ra-Fael Blanco
VP of Media Relations
2R's Entertainment & Media
Phone: (646) 326-4803
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