Tag: gun violence
Mayor Woodfin Unveils AR-15, Other Weapons Seized on Birmingham Streets
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
After unveiling a table filled with an AR-15, an AKM, an SKS and an AK-47 pistol variant commonly referred to...
Serena’s example: Tennis icon’s impact felt in Black America
By AARON MORRISON, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena...
Ensley Native Lost Son to Gun Violence. How He Found Strength...
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
Ensley neighborhood native Ernest Brown, compliance officer and dean of academics at Maranathan Academy in Birmingham, goes above and...
Mayor Woodfin on How Smart Technology Can Help Curb Increase in...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
With Birmingham’s homicide rate up nearly 22 percent, due in part to 13 people killed in the first 26 days...
Jeffco Commissioner Sheila Tyson caught in shootout driving through Bessemer
WBRC Staff
BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - Bessemer Police are looking for witness information or video after a Jefferson County commissioner was caught in the middle...
Alabama A&M mourns death of Birmingham native and cheerleader
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Alabama A&M University is mourning the death of Chi McDade who passed on Thursday night.
McDade was a member of the cheer...
Study: Blacks 14 percent of the U.S. population; 52 percent of...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
According to a new and comprehensive study on gun violence, Black men, women, boys, and girls...
Gun Violence Has Nation in Mourning, VP Kamala Harris tells Birmingham...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
During an armchair conversation with Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris said the country is in...
Robert Dickerson: Gun Violence Plagues America
By Robert Dickerson
This is an Opinion
Gun violence plagues us. When I started to write this article, fresh in the headlines were the shooting...
Mullen-Johnson: Coping with Mass Shootings – As a Mom and Therapist
By Crystal Mullen-Johnson
The world is changing in ways that have some feeling hopeless about the future. In May we experienced intense emotional responses brought...
