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The Alabama Solution

A reckoning on prison horrors through new documentary film

Oct 12, 2025 • Beth Shelburne

A Song for Toforest Johnson

Birmingham singer songwriter releases new single "Mercy for Toforest"

Jan 26, 2025 • Beth Shelburne

What happens behind the curtain

Finding counternarratives about death row

Jan 20, 2024 • Beth Shelburne

A brightly burning essay collection

Birmingham high school writers cover problems in education

Oct 29, 2023 • Beth Shelburne

Introducing Earwitness: new podcast about Toforest Johnson's death row innocence claim

Episodes 1-2 just dropped!

Sep 19, 2023 • Beth Shelburne

Coming soon... podcast 3 years in the making!

Earwitness is about the wrongful conviction of Toforest Johnson

Sep 13, 2023 • Beth Shelburne

The Charnel Ground

A must-see film about life after incarceration

Aug 28, 2022 • Beth Shelburne

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