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Journalists, Poet Laureate Salaam Green to Host Night of Storytelling, ‘Birmingham Dreams’

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Pictured is a mural painted on the James Rushton Early Learning Center in Woodlawn. (Alaina Bookman, AL.com)

By Ruth Serven Smith | rserven@al.com

Join AL.com journalists and community storytellers for a free, interactive event, “Birmingham Dreams,” July 24.

Featured speakers include AL.com columnist John Archibald, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, gun violence prevention reporter Alaina Bookman and Birmingham Poet Laureate Salaam Green.

This event, part of AL.com’s ongoing “Beyond the Violence” project, features community storytellers from neighborhoods around Birmingham. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24 at Woodlawn Theatre, 5503 1st Ave. North Birmingham, Alabama 35212.

Sign up for free tickets here.

Green and AL.com senior editor Ruth Serven Smith have spent months talking to Birmingham residents in different neighborhoods about their goals for our community and their ideas for solving its most pressing problems.

Join us to hear neighborhood storytellers describe those hopes firsthand — and learn how we can make them a reality, together.

Read stories from the “Beyond the Violence” series, in partnership with The Birmingham Times.