Chris McNair

Memoir explores ‘being Black but growing up white’ after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

"Dear Denise" follows Lisa McNair's life in a series of letters to the sister she never met. Lisa recounts her experience growing up in the first generation of African Americans after legal segregation.

Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies

The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing died Sunday. She was 93.