| No Images? Click here  Our Listen To America bus has pulled into Little Rock. Here it is in front of the Arkansas Capitol: We spent part of our time here with Jodi Morris. She gives tours of Little Rock Central High School, which is now a designated national historic site. “They look like our neighbors.”That's what Morris’ dad told her about the crowd of violent segregationists who gathered to protest at the high school on Sept. 5, 1957. Morris was just a kid. Her father was a Little Rock native and an Arkansas National Guardsman who was stationed at the school on orders by then-Gov. Orval Faubus. He was supposed to keep nine black students, who had been chosen to desegregate the designated white high school, from getting inside.Morris' father taught her what happened that day. Now she teaches visitors from all over the country about the historic journey that brought those nine students — known as the Little Rock Nine — through the doors of Central High, a school that still stands and educates more than 20,000 students of all backgrounds.Morris knows that Little Rock has a long way to go, but she said she hopes that preserving and sharing what happened in the city's history will remind locals to be brave enough to fight for change.  Gang violence has returned to Little Rock with full force, and those who want to leave it behind are struggling to find jobs. HuffPost partnered with KARK and Fox16 to tell their stories. Brian Silva, an unemployed African-American man from one of Little Rock’s roughest neighborhoods, still struggles not to go back to the life of crime he knows so well.“It’s a fight every day,” Silva said, pausing to find the words to best describe his daily dilemma. “What you’re making in two weeks, I can go out and make this in two days.”  We talked to Brianna (left), who reported a sexual assault in Georgia, and Julia, who reported a sexual assault in Ohio, about trauma and healing.
 Photo courtesy of Emily Kearns Emily Kearns is a Democrat and canoe novice who’s involved in environmental activism. Rep. French Hill is a Republican and experienced canoer. They climbed into a boat together to navigate Little Rock’s Fourche Creek. Plus: How one woman is helping kids with incarcerated parents feel less alone.   Let’s meet up in MississippiWe’d love to see you tomorrow in Oxford! Our bus will be parked outside the Oxford Town Square during the day. Then you can find us at Off Square Books, where journalist Curtis Wilkie will interview Mayor Robyn Tannehill.
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