Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2014 • United States
Starring Erin Stewart, Vivian Gordon

SUGARCOATED ARSENIC is a cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Starring Erin Stewart as Vivian Gordon (the director of UVA’s Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980), the film tells the story of the Black women and men who, through their public and private gestures, sought to create a community that thrived on intellectual exchange, self-critique, and human warmth.