The Queen City of the Black Belt is getting introduced to thousands of Americans this week through the Oprah Show, late night talk shows and MTV, of all places.

Selma, part of a recent documentary by Flower Films, the production company owned and operated by Drew Barrymore, has been mentioned not only on the original MTV broadcast of the documentary, but in subsequent interviews with Letterman and Oprah as well.

Barrymore came to Selma over the summer to complete a documentary about youth voting. Part of the short film featured a segment about the Voting Rights Movement, and its roots in the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

During her visit here, Barrymore talked to Director of the Voting Rights Museum Joanne Bland regarding the struggle for black suffrage in the 1960s.

“I think it was a great boost to Selma,” Bland said. “Our children were very much involved in the process.”

Bland explained that the struggle for voting rights was more than about Bloody Sunday.

“The whole struggle was not just for that day, it was for all of our children,” Bland said. “What a beautiful way to showcase that.”

Bland said that Barrymore decided to do the piece after a political rally in which she was asked to say a few words on voting to the crowd. Because she didn’t know anything, Barrymore decided to film a documentary.

“She didn’t know any of this,” Bland said.

That desire to learn, Bland said, is what brought Barrymore to Selma.

“What I like about the piece,” Bland said, “She went to all those (other) places, and did not get anything concrete until she got to Selma.

Bland said the film was also a testament to the 21st Century Leadership Project, which is headed by Faya Rose Toure and her husband, Sen. Hank Sanders.

“It allowed them an opportunity to showcase their worth,” Bland said.

The film airs again on MTV today, at 9 a.m. local time.