Birmingham View Blogs – Views from Birmingham, the Magic City

Dead men tell no tales and grand jury proceedings are secret — except in the case of the St. Louis County grand jury. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced the foregone decision Monday night about the fatal confrontation between Ferguson police officer...

Reading “Poverty and Public Health,” a great article by colleague Mark Kelly in his Weld for Birmingham newspaper, was bittersweet for me. It made me think of my friend Rev. Ronnie Williams. He should have been in it. At the time Mark was interviewing...

I covered politics as a reporter and rarely stepped up to give my personal opinion or make endorsements in a widely public way. Most of the people who run for office are friends or acquaintances, and even in private it’s hard for me to take sides. But...

The last item on Dr. Martin Luther King’s agenda was economics. He spoke about it the day before he was assassinated. As a young reporter many years ago, I asked Harry Belafonte after this MLK Unity Breakfast speech, what would have been the next phase...