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By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) has earmarked $6 million to make security upgrades in its public housing sites.Â
Several children have lost lives in public housing over the past 24 months including four-year-old Jurnee Coleman; three-year-old Kamille âCupcakeâ McKinney, and two-year-old Major Turner.
âThey did not deserve to die and we owe it to them and their families and all existing families that reside in our public housing communities to do everything we can to keep them safe,â said Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Friday at a press conference attended by HABD President and CEO David A. Northern Sr. and Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith.
Our crimes, our tragedies, our silence; make me stop writing about them
Updated 9:55 AM;
Today 7:54 AM
A woman was killed and five others injured - ages 21, 17, 16, 15, and 5, when gunfire erupted inside Birmingham s Patton Park on East Sunday night. City and community leaders say it must stop.
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This is an opinion column.
I’ve written this column too many times. I’m incensed because I’ll probably have to write it again.
I’ll keep writing it, too, until Black men and women and children peaceful lawful citizens may safely fellowship in our parks on a beautiful spring Easter Sunday afternoon, can grill for goodness sakes, without having to scurry from gunfire, without having to use their bodies to shield children.