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The Black List
MOVIE: HBO, Monday 8/25 at 9:00p (90 minutes)


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Starring Elvis Mitchell

This Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell documentary interviews 20 African-Americans about interesting moments in their lives.

GENRE(S):	Documentary
CREATED BY:	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Elvis Mitchell
FIRST AIR DATE:	August 25, 2008

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Washington Post Tom Shales

This is television that matters, and that very rare thing in current TV, reality that's real.

Time James Poniewozik

This spare film collects 22 black celebrities' insights as told to critic Elvis Mitchell--from Toni Morrison on how her race liberated her as a writer to Chris Rock on his dad's theory about competing with white people.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

A simple but moving collection of first-person accounts, anecdotes and musings by notable black artists, writers and public figures from Kenan Ivory Wayans to Colin Powell.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

It feels like one of those coffee-table books no one actually reads. Might be a mistake, though, to just look at the pretty pictures. Because some of these talking heads, who range, in the S's alone, from Guns N' Roses' Slash to Philadelphia's Dawn Staley, have something to say.

Baltimore Sun David Zurawik

The 90-minute documentary is consistently thought-provoking.

PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs

If The Black List‘s presentation is seemingly simple, its stories are layered, poignant, and provocative.

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The Black List MOVIE: HBO, Monday 8/25 at 9:00p (90 minutes)

The Black List
MOVIE: HBO, Monday 8/25 at 9:00p (90 minutes)