Opinion Opinion | We’re exceptional at killing kids with guns Gun violence recently surpassed vehicle crashes as the No.1 killer of children aged 1 through 17. Joey KennedyJanuary 17, 2023
Local news Woodfin speaks on shooting death of a 12-year-old girl "Our families and our children deserve better," Woodfin said. John H. GlennDecember 22, 2022
Local news Birmingham police investigating six gun homicides over weekend The six homicides bring the number of Birmingham homicides to 119 so far in 2021, with 13 considered justified. Eddie BurkhalterDecember 7, 2021
National Activists push for community-led gun violence prevention in an Alabama city Birmingham has one of the country’s highest rates of fatal shootings. The defund movement has reinvigorated grassroots efforts to drive down violence. Chip BrownleeJuly 29, 2020
Education New survey shows teachers feel lawmakers are not doing enough to stop school shootings Nearly 90 percent of teachers do not feel that lawmakers are doing enough to stop school shootings, a new survey finds. In the survey... Jessa Reid BollingOctober 3, 2019
National Senate candidates respond to mass shootings Alabama candidates for the 2020 U.S. Senate election have spoken out on the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that... Jessa Reid BollingAugust 26, 2019
News ACLU, NAACP make demands of authorities following Hoover police shooting Thursday, the ACLU of Alabama and Alabama NAACP filed public records requests to police departments in Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Hoover, Huntsville, and Saraland for... Brandon MoseleyDecember 13, 2018
Featured Opinion Opinion | Beware the Ides of March Beware the Ides of March, warned the seer to Julius Caesar, but Caesar didn’t, and the Roman emperor was reportedly assassinated on March 15,... Joey KennedyMarch 15, 2018