Just Days Before Christmas, We Lost Julian — a Ten-Year-Old Who Taught Us Courage.
My heart hurts as I share this news,especially after all of us came together earlier this year to rally around a little boy who showed […]
Montgomery in Mourning: When Violence Enters a Pastor’s Home.
Montgomery, Alabama, has a way of holding on to Sunday mornings.The streets feel softer when church doors open, and people carry their worries a little […]
She Took Her Last Breath in My Arms—A Mother’s Promise to Make the World Hear Kali’s Name.
Closing my baby up was the hardest experience I ever had to go through.There is no training for that moment, no preparation that makes it […]
17-Year-Old Killed in New Year’s Eve Shooting on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
The last night of the year in Fort Lauderdale always seems to breathe differently.The air is softer, salted and warm, and the ocean carries a […]
Forty-Eight Hours of Life: The Story of Danielle and Baby Kennedy.
She Waited for Her Baby All Morning She had waited all morning. Danielle Hoyle was twenty-seven years old, lying in a hospital bed in Tennessee, […]
Heartbreaking Hit-and-Run Claims the Lives of a Mother and Her 4-Year-Old Daughter.
It was a day that began like any other for Faith Alexander and her four-year-old daughter, Amelia Ellis. Faith, thirty-one, had her daughter by the […]
The Twins Who Entered the World Together — And Left It the Same Way.
Nineteen-month-old twins Locklyn and Loreli Callazzo had lived every moment of their short lives as if they were one heartbeat.They slept side by side in […]
“She Was Two Years Old: The Warnings Ignored Before Zevaya Flanagan Was Killed”.
It began with a quiet Texas morning, the kind that should have passed without tragedy, without horror, without a little girl’s life unraveling in front […]
“A Seven-Year-Old Taken in Seconds: The Day Eight Bullets Stole a Lifetime of Dreams”
There are moments in life that fracture time itself, moments where everything is divided into “before” and “after.” December 30, 2018, became one of those […]
Abducted in Her Own Driveway, Justice Still Unanswered
Three years have passed since the day Athena Strand disappeared, yet for her family, time has not moved forward in any way that feels meaningful […]