It is late in the afternoon in Montgomery. The banks of the Alabama River are largely deserted. Bryan Stevenson and I walk slowly up the cobblestones from the expanse of the river into the city.

Living Black’s Karla Grant travels to the city of Montgomery in the United States southern state of Alabama to speak with American lawyer and social justice campaigner Bryan Stevenson.

For those privileged enough to hear Stevenson speak in New Orleans, his message was clear: The song of fighting for equal ...