HBO Premieres Black List Volume One

"The Black List: Volume One" premieres Monday, August 25 at 9PM/8C on HBO.

In a new kind of living portraiture, a remarkable group of African-American notables share candid stories and revealing insights into the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in the U.S. when The Black List: Volume One debuts Monday, August 25 (9p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. The film is a collaboration between celebrated portrait photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, who directs, and award-winning journalist Elvis Mitchell who interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Sean Combs; Lou Gossett, Jr.; Toni Morrison; Colin Powell; Chris Rock; Al Sharpton; basketball star Dawn Staley; Keenen Ivory Wayans; and Serena Williams, among others.

Hopefully this will be much better that CNN's Black in America