Oop ... Nikki is female, I believe ...

Thanks, Josh. It's corrected.

Can somebody tell me why it is called the "black" list. For me a black list is something negative. Is it just a cultural difference?

Desiree, this is from the Entertainment Weekly article:

"Leonard himself is a soft-spoken Georgia native and Harvard grad. He's uncomfortable, for good reason, with people assuming that he named his project the Black List simply because he's African-American. The truth is that he had a couple of different inspirations. Yes, he wanted to subvert the cultural metaphor that black equals bad (''I wanted to stick my finger in the eye of that idea''); but he also wanted to take a swipe at the infamous McCarthy-inspired blacklist, which killed the careers of screenwriters suspected of being Communists (''What if there was a blacklist that people wanted to be on?'')."