They bear a woman’s pain when her child is killed. They push police and politicians for safer streets. You can find them in court, at funerals and in the glare of 3 a.m. police lights. Ask for MAMA.

Editor’s note: This story is one of four in The Palm Beach Post’s profile of the Mothers Against Murderers Association. Click these links to read about the moms of Shayne Fleming Gilbert, who was killed in 2009, Colan Porter, who was killed in 2014, and Randall Cleveland Jr., who was killed in 2018.

WEST PALM BEACH — Surrounded by portraits of their grieving sisters, a group of women cries. And remembers. And advocates.

Twice a month, women bound by the bottomless pain of losing a child meet at the Mothers Against Murderers Association’s West Palm Beach office for what founder Angela Williams calls a circle of healing.