It was the fourth album by her Black Earth Ensemble and the first for Delmark after three recordings on Dreamtime, the label she established with David Boykin.

[1] According to Mitchell, this project features a diverse collection of songs that touch all sides of Great Black Music: avant-garde jazz, blues, R&B and soul.

[2] In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos states "Black Unstoppable documents Mitchell's complete concept, diverse thoughts, and ever potent musical gifts without resorting to existential theories - a woman's touch definitely gracing the powerful AACM aesthetic in a very positive light.

Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble is a throwback to the early days of AACM, except there were next to no female leaders making records 40 years ago.

"[4] In a review for JazzTimes David Whiteis says "Few flutists can summon the variety of tones, textures, emotional realms and degrees of light from the instrument that Mitchell can: alternately eider-down tender, knifelike, declamatory and spiritually seeking, her sound — and the fearless way in which she prods her melodic ideas into new, unexpected directions — sometimes seems to invoke virtually the entire range of human possibilities over the course of a solo.