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US Attorney General Lynch visits Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss police-community relations

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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks with cadets as she visits the Birmingham Police Academy, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager) (The Associated Press)

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks with members of the media as she visits the Birmingham Police Academy, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager) (The Associated Press)

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks with cadets as she visits the Birmingham Police Academy, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager) (The Associated Press)

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is visiting Alabama to discuss law enforcement work.

Lynch is traveling to the city on Wednesday as part of a tour focusing on programs meant to improve cooperation between police and the community.

Lynch will meet with new cadets at Birmingham's police academy and participate in a forum about community policing at the city's civil rights museum.

Lynch will also pay a visit to Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, site of a racist bombing that killed four black girls in 1963. And she will meet with both Birmingham-area youth and police chiefs and sheriffs from north Alabama.

Lynch became attorney general in April. She's the first black woman to hold the position.