By Steven Boone
On paper, HBO's The Black List: Volume 1 fairly screams Black History Month: Twenty-two African-American superachievers speak about their lives and times; cue gospel choir and martial trumpets. Luckily, the canned epiphanies never come. The documentary's format is refreshingly simple: Luminaries face the camera and tell their tales as if addressing a single friendly acquaintance (you, the viewer) rather than a sea of black ties at an NAACP fund-raiser.
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