fred de sam lazaro: in downtown beijing on the 20th floor of a high-rise, one of china's senior environmental reporters is becoming a buddhist. [doorbell rings] liu jianqiang: hi. fred: hi. liu: fred? hi. fred: good to meet you. liu: nice to see you. fred: likewise. liu jianqiang is an investigative journalist. his first story about the environment was an exposÉ about illegal dam construction on the upper yangtze river. it made national headlines. his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but after 10 years of reporting, he was feeling burned out. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerful spiritual support. why? every day what we do may be good deeds which give us positive energy, but meanwhile what we are facing is the darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negative energy atta

for the "pbs newshour," i'm fred de sam lazaro in montgomery, alabama. d's reporting is supported in partnership with the iversity of st. thomas in minnesota. amna: and we will be back shortly with a brief but spectacular take on the power of a name. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. geoff: ♪ geoff: elliot wade is a trans advocate. who co-founded the louisiana trans name change fund. he was born and raised in cecilia, louisiana, where he didn't have much access to conversations about identity. he says he's looking to change that for others. tonight, wade shares his brief but spectacular take on the power of a name. >> i'm looking at these statistics, right, and i know that there are high rates of violence. i know that louisiana is one of the highest rates of murders in the country for trans people. i know that black trans people, especially black trans women, are subjected to that violence at a higher rate. i know that i have to maybe prepare myself to be homeless. but i would rather live as myself or not live at all. i'm in ce

correspondent fred de sam lazaro has our report from alabama's capital, montgomery.of fred's series "agents for change" and our arts and culture series, canvas. >> welcome to more than a tour. fred: for some years, she has conducted trolley tours of montgomery area. from rosa parks home, to the bus depot that is now the freedom ride's museum. >> this is where they were beaten and bludgeoned right here. fred: alabama's capital is a living history museum of the civil-rights era, with so many iconic events, people, and places. but for browder, artist by training, activists by leaning, there is one chapter of an earlier history that she is working to rewrite. it has manifested in the monument on the capital brought -- grounds to jane sims, he was a physician who practiced in the 1840's, developing tools for pelvic exams, and a technique to sutra vaginally tears. two michelle, but is only half of the story. >> there is nothing on the monument that says anything about the women he worked on. >> absolutely not. nothing of these 11 enslaved girls of african dissent that were