Sixty years after a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members killed four little girls as they prepared for Sunday services, I visited the 16th Street Baptist Church. Standing there, I was struck by how beauty and hope can coexist alongside indescribable pain. It is this duality that propels our advocacy.
Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a church that killed four Black girls. Speaking at 16th Street Baptist Church, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on
(RNS) ‘I was thinking about trying to protect my children. And we had to drive right through the worst part of the riots downtown Birmingham,’ she said.