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Alaina Bookman AL.com This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series, “Beyond the Violence.” Click here to sign up for the newsletter. Contribute to aid Alaina Bookman's violence prevention...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times After recent domestic and gun violence deaths in Birmingham, City Council President Wardine Alexander told Mayor Randall Woodfin that city’s...

By  Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series “Beyond the Violence: What can be done to address Birmingham’s rising homicide rate.” Sign...

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times Estella Rush-Lewis vividly remembers being in denial when she arrived at the scene where her daughter was murdered. Lakandria "Kandie"...

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times There is no closure after losing a child, said Pamela Bass, who lost her 29-year-old son, Antonio “Toni” Bass”,...

By James L. Baggett We need to add another name. We need to add another name to a long but incomplete list of names that includes...

Compiled by Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Birmingham, known as a cradle of civil rights history, today still contains numerous strong voices pushing for change locally...

By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com This is another installment in a Birmingham Times/AL.com joint series on Gun Violence in the city. Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond,...

The Birmingham Times After five people were killed at the start of the Labor Day weekend in Birmingham, Mayor Randall L. Woodfin called out gangs...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times After four homicides in under four hours early Friday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin quickly released a statement about the “senseless...