She talks in the film, for example, about her middle-class childhood in Chicago and recounts how she could never have imagined getting on a plane and going off to a place like South Africa — that was just something too far outside her realm of experience to even imagine. She says she hopes documentaries like the one about her trip will help young people understand it is possible for them.
"We hear her in a different way, talking directly to BET viewers," Scott says. "She's talking about who she wants her daughters to be as black women, talking about what it was like growing up in a middle-class black family when international travel was not as possible for her generation. … Our viewers will hear her in this piece speaking directly to them in a way that we think resonates with their lives. … We may not have the kind of full-fledged, sophisticated news-gathering infrastructure of a major news organization, but we're especially well-positioned to produce quality journalism on the issues that matter most to our audience."
