From Left: Elvis Mitchell, Faye Wattleton and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
February 3, 2009, The Black List Volume 3 had its NYC premiere at the Palely Center for Media. On hand were the Black List creators, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, and several subjects of the previous films. The panel featured both creators and Dr. Michael Lomax and Faye Wattleton. The panel discussed the film’s themes and process, Black America’s threads and a constructive disagreement on the power of race, integration and our past/future.
The premiere kicked off with words from the good Reverend Al Sharpton who helped drive home the point of the black list.
You see the black list once ended peoples careers as it shut them and their respective ideas away to never be heard from again. This term “black list” was now reinvented to do the exact opposite and the third edition continues this trend. This volume featured John Legend, Whoopi Goldberg, Lee Daniels, Debra Lee, and Beverly Johnson. You really learned a lot about each member, what they endured and what drove them to eventually be included on The Blacklist Vol 3.
The words used by Reverand Al Sharpton- ” these films made us all American in a black sort of way.”
I encourage everyone to check out the television premier on HBO this Monday, Feb. 8th, at 8:30pm ET.
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