04/26/2026
Inaugural "Voices & Vigil" – Montgomery for Crime Survivors Speak – Alabama,
National Crime Victims Week event 2026:
Our partners — Supreme Transitions, MAAVIS, Empowering Communities Helping Ourselves, GirlTrek, 219 @ 819 Resilient Heart, (Alabama Appleseed, the City of Montgomery Office of Violence Prevention, city officials, and policymakers) — remind us that healing is not passive. It’s active. It’s advocacy. It’s art. It’s action.
City Councilwoman Riley, thank you for being here with us tonight and for offering your voice as we begin this important work.
Every name we speak tonight carries power. Every story shared becomes part of a collective truth that demands change. And every person here is part of that change.
We remember. We honor. We speak. But we also build — a movement across this state that ensures healing is not a privilege, but a right.