Stockland Martel

In her review of The Black List: Vol. 2, an HBO documentary directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the Times’ Ginia Bellafante praises the film’s varied view of African-American achievement. Wryly noting that the election of Barack Obama has inspired “a frenzied eagerness by the news media to showcase the lives of prominent and well-to-do African-Americans,” Bellafante singles out Vol. 2 as a “worthwhile effort.” Read her review here.