Soul Fixin'

The Black List

The black experience in America is defined by struggles, joys, trials, tribulations and triumphs. A diverse group of prominent African Americans from various professions, disciplines and backgrounds are telling their own story, the African American experience in the 21st century, in HBO's Documentary Film Series latest doc, The Black List, which airs tonight at 9. Sean Combs, Toni Morrison, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton, Serena Williams and others are featured in the Elvis Mitchell and Timothy Greenfield-Saunders film. If you feel like telling your personal experience of black life in America, head over to HBO Blacklist and upload your video.

Soul Fixin'

Hard Times @ Douglass High

Take a look at this clip for the new HBO doc "Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card." Premiering tonight at 9, "Hard Times at Douglass High" takes a look at the brutal inequalities of America's minority education using Frederick Douglass High School as a focal point. Filmmakers Alan & Susan Raymond spent an entire year filming at the inner city Baltimore school, were two-thirds of teachers are non-certified and many students lack basic reading and writing skills and come from poor backgrounds and broken homes. Frederick Douglass High is struggling to meet the expectations of Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind Act.

Saturday Soul

He's been called the 'Poet Laureate of Soul' and Bob Dylan described him as 'America's greatest living poet.' William 'Smokey' Robinson made an appearance on HBO's Def Poetry Jam back in 2003. Take a look as Smokey recites his poem "A Black American"