Present

BRING YOUR “A” GAME

NYC Black Carpet Premiere

Saturday, September 12, 2009

7:30 – 10:30 p.m.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Share the evening with Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Kevin Powell, Glenn Martin, David Banks, Kevin Liles and other celebrities from the film to watch and celebrate the broadcast premiere of Twenty-First Century Foundation’s (21CF) groundbreaking documentary film – Bring Your “A” Game – on BET. Bring Your “A” Game was created to generate a national conversation on the plight of Black men and boys, and underscores how essential educational achievement and high school graduation are to survival and success in today’s world. The talk back following the screening will be moderated by award-winning journalist, social activist and political commentator Jeff Johnson who is the chief correspondent for The Truth with Jeff Johnson.

To view a trailer of Bring Your “A” Game, please visit: www.21cf.org/agame/film.php.

About Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF)

Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF) is one of the few, endowed, Black foundations in the United States. For nearly 40 years, 21CF has worked inside communities, bringing stakeholders to the table to define the issues and provide programmatic and capacity building solutions to addressing these issues. The nation's largest foundation committed to Black cooperative self-determination, 21CF has been an option for Blacks and others to contribute to community-based solutions that work to advance the welfare of the Black community. In addition to strategic and collective grant making; special initiatives and research; donor education and donor services, 21CF also catalyzes and invests in regional and national opportunities to coalesce focused leadership leading to change that positively impacts more Black communities nationally.