Opening with the landmark exhibition "Two Centuries of Black American Art" curated by the late David Driskell at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the documentary looks at the major Black art movements of the past half-century, and speaks to contemporary luminaries like Jordan Casteel, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and Kehinde Wiley, among others.

The documentary has a 92% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Boston Globe calling it "an essential and revelatory glimpse at the accomplishments of today's Black artists," and Wall Street Journal saying, "The film never dips into saccharine platitudes, and it is unafraid to examine the defects within artistic movements that, while fighting for racial justice, had their own blindspots."