this film offers an inside look into two families of color and the every day challenges and choices they face all questions raised and open the door left wide open. american promise has the national broadcast premiere this monday february 3 at 10:00 p.m. eastern. the film makers are also the authors of promises kept raising black boys to succeed in school and life. make a film about your own son and his friends is a fascinating idea. you see your son growing up over the course of this film. we went in this thinking that it was going to be a cake walk. we were going to document the importance of diversity. shortly after beginning the process we realized diversity was not enough and that there