Mr. Gossett was chosen to both partake in and promote HBO’s special The Black List.

From HBO’s website:

Part of a multimedia initiative, The Black List: Volume One is the brainchild of renowned portrait photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and acclaimed NPR radio host, journalist and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell, with Greenfield-Sanders directing and Mitchell conducting the interviews. Mitchell, by design, is never seen on camera or heard, a strategy that allows the subjects’ own voices to remain the focus. The actual title of the film itself, The Black List, was first conceived by Mitchell as an answer to the persistent taint that western culture has applied to the word “black.”

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The Black List: Volume One made its world premiere at 2008’s Sundance Film Festival; Variety called it “an impeccably mounted survey of voices from across the spectrum of African-American accomplishment…a rich and revealing work of portraiture.”

You can find out more about the documentary series by visiting the HBO Website.

Also, to give a voice to someone in your life, visit WhosOnYourBlackList.com.

Watch the promotional video for more information: