your youngest you have a 6-year-old. what has your 6-year-old been saying about this? he just keeps on telling me he wants to go to grandpa s house. can i call grandpa? i just tell him, where he is at now we can t call. he s in heaven. it s so heartbreaking. the amount of loss from that experience, evangelina, what happened when you got the word about what happened that day at your brother s church? i had just come home from my church, and then we turned the tv on it was the first thing on the news. i didn t know that was my brother s church until my niece called me and she couldn t even talk, and she said, that s my dad s church. i go, no, that can t be true, no. that s when we were hoping that
know, maybe we should go a little slower. it looks like civil rights is evolving the right away. maybe things are going to work out okay after the march. and this changed the next morning, literally, the next morning, the editorial in the milwaukee sentinel, a conservative paper was, we all have blood on our hands. up next, birmingham native, condoleezza rice, shares her memories of that fateful day. i will never forget that awful day in september when 16th street baptist church was bombed. we felt the explosion. oh, really? at your church right. my dad s church was only about two miles from 16th street baptist church. so it was like the ground shook and i remember pretty soon, we were starting to hear that these little girls had been killed and then the names started to come out, and of course, everybody knew one of those little girls.
and then i had such an attitude, i said, we ll have this and that and i won t do this or that and then at the end of the conversation, i heard, okay. and so i said, okay, we ll do that then. we ll bring you back that s it? up that quick? no, you re not finished. i ll bring you back. and i have movie ideas for you. tamron hall, melissa, you know, we got a thing. we can do this. tyler perry, we ll be right back. thank you. coming up, stefy wu stefy wonder, back on stage at the apollo. and corey booker, how he is advancing the dream. and condoleezza rice, on the day that may have changed her life. someone called the church to say a bomb went off at 16th street. we felt the explosion. this is an msnbc special. advancing the dream live from the apollo. [ male announcer ] at hebrew national,
you laugh but i did. i use those characters over and over again in my stories. couldn t afford to go to theaters. so i would wait until intermission when a show would be in town. sneak in when the smokers would come out at intermission, i would go back in and see the show. we do that at the apollo. that s why so many people think my movies are incomplete. i only saw the second acts of most shows. but having all of that, having inspiration from her, then having the opportunity and wherewithal to just go for it and just believe that it s going to be okay. for me, it s my faith. i m so grateful to my mother for it. she didn t have millions of dollars or a legacy to leave. she took me to church. she taught me about god. she taught me about faith and that sustained me, through even the thing that sustained me through her death. now you feel that it is that wab that kept you from going down the bad road?
awful day in september when 16th straight baptist church was bombed. somebody called the church to say this a bomb had gone off at 16th street. we felt the explosion. oh really? at your church? my dad s church was only about two miles from 16th street baptist church. it was like the ground shook. and i remember pretty soon we were starting to hear that these little girls had been killed and then the names started to come out. and of course, everybody knew one of those little girls. and for kids in birmingham, my age, i was eight, it was, how could these people hate us so much. what is this? your dad actually add watchman group on the block. my father and his friends formed a brigade to keep the community safe. they had their shifts with their weapons out there to keep night