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Today Show – March 30, 2025

How director Shola Lynch gives Black leading ladies their well-deserved spotlight in new doc

Variety – March 29, 2025

Documentary ‘Number One on the Call Sheet,’ About the History of Black Hollywood, Aims to be a ‘Blueprint for Generations to Come’

IndieWire – March 28, 2025

Number One on the Call Sheet’ Review: Ambitious Two-Part Apple TV+ Doc Gives a State of the Industry for Black Actors

The Guardian – March 28, 2025

Number One on the Call Sheet review – a spectacular tribute to black excellence in Hollywood

VIBE – March 28, 2025

Number One On The Call Sheet’: 7 Takeaways From The Two-Part Docuseries

Apple TV Press – February 27, 2025

Apple TV+ unveils the trailer for the highly anticipated two-part documentary film event “Number One on the Call Sheet,” debuting on Friday, March 28

Spelman College – November 19, 2024

Award-Winning Film Director Shola Lynch Joins Spelman Faculty as Director of Documentary Filmmaking

Hollywood Reporter – August 21, 2022

A Major Retrospective of Black Filmmaking Debuts at the Academy Museum

Hollywood Reporter – March 17, 2022

Jesse Jackson’s “Untold Story” to Get Film and Limited Series Treatment

Variety – April 21, 2021

Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Kevin Hart and More Team for Apple Documentary ‘Number One on the Call Sheet’

MSNBC – February 17, 2021

Transcript: Harlem On My Mind: Arturo Schomburg

New York Times – September 30, 2020

8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming

Vogue – August 17, 2020

A New Exhibition Asks: What Has—And Hasn’t—Been Accomplished 100 Years After Women Earned the Right to Vote? 

New York Times – May 24, 2019

Fab 5 Freddy’s Latest Cultural Coup? ‘The Archive of the Future’
The personal collection of the original “Yo! MTV Raps” host, who united the worlds of hip-hop and art, has been acquired by the Schomburg Center in Harlem.

Washington Post – May 17, 2019

I binge-watched 9 campaign documentaries, from ‘Knock Down the House’ to ‘Running With Beto.’ Here’s what I learned.

Los Angeles Review of Books – May 13, 2018

“Creating the Historiography”: An Interview with Curator-Filmmaker Shola Lynch