| No Images? Click here  The Listen To America bus is back on the highway, and getting ready to stop in Atlanta tomorrow! Come hang out with us at Ponce City Market. Yesterday, our bus stopped at Railroad Park, a 19-acre green space in the center of downtown Birmingham, Alabama.At the park, Christine Roberts sat down with Lisa McNair. Lisa is the sister of Denise McNair, one of the four girls who died in the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963. Denise was only 11 years old at the time of her death."It's weird to have a relative that was taken from you in such an odd way, so long ago, but have such a presence and mean so much to the world," Lisa said. The KKK-led bombing is often regarded as a turning point in the civil rights movement, and is thought to have bolstered support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lisa, who was born after her sister died, said that she has experienced a very different Birmingham than the city her sister knew."She grew up in the 'Old South,' and I grew up in the 'New South' after segregation," Lisa told HuffPost. "I have a very different way of looking at life than she did."Lisa said she continues to share her sister's story because she sees parallels between racial tensions then and now."I think it's important that we have the dialogue about race and how we were able to do things back in the '60s … because I think we are facing some of those same, hateful, angry times," Lisa said. "And we need to know how to manipulate through them."  Amy and Kevin Smith, who live just outside Asheville, North Carolina, were quick to accept their trans child. The local elementary school was another story. “‘We have to follow HB 2,’” Amy and Kevin say the principal told them, referring to the bill that forces trans people to use public restrooms that correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth. “‘And that states ... she has to use the boys’ bathroom. And that’s all we can offer.’”
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