Our heads are full of an incredible amount of information – dates, times, stories. And our hearts are filled with horror and disgust as well as inspiration and admiration. I am reminded again of the remarkable amount of people who gave so much to fight for a cause that was much greater than themselves.

Everywhere we went today (and every other day), I had this sense that we were “touching history”. We were standing in the place where MLK preached or where Rosa Parks was arrested or where JoAnn Robinson printed over 53,000 flyers to alert people to the plan to boycott the buses. These stories need to be told – both so we understand history and secondly so that the lessons from history inform us and guide us to be our best, rather than our worst. We need to tell these stories – the inspiring ones and the horrific ones.

Tomorrow we’ll be spending the day at the Legacy Museum, created by the Equal Justice Initiative. This is the brainchild of Bryan Stephenson, the author of the book ”Just Mercy”.

Thanks for travelling with us.