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Shooting in Alabama park leaves 5 injured, 1 dead Share Updated: 2:52 AM CDT Apr 5, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Share Updated: 2:52 AM CDT Apr 5, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript But at approximately seven PM, our officers responded to patent part. Uh, while hundreds of people were in the park gathered on this Easter Sunday, there were silver shots fired in which we responded to. We believe during our preliminary investigation that an incident or altercation amongst a group of males occurred in the park, which them to several shots being fired at this ti...

Updated: 10:26 AM CDT Apr 6, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital UPDATE: The victim killed in the Easter Sunday shooting at W.C. Patton Park in Birmingham has been identified as 32-year-old Areyelle Yarbrough, of Bessemer.More details released by Birmingham PD on Twitter Monday night say Yarbrough was found on the ground outside of the passenger door of her vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.BPD says one adult and four children ranging from five years old to 17 years old were injured in the shootout. Two of the children were transported to Children's of Alabama by Birmingha...

Alabama miners at Warrior Met Coal Inc. striking Share Updated: 11:25 PM CDT Apr 1, 2021 Share Updated: 11:25 PM CDT Apr 1, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript MISS AN UPDATE. SHERI: MORE THAN 1000 ALABAMA COAL MINERS ARE PLANNING A STRIKE FOR WHAT THEY CALL UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES AT WARRIOR MET COAL INCORPORATED. WVTM 13’S BREA DOUGLAS IS LIVE AT ONE OF THE MINES IN BROOKWOOD. BREA, WHAT DO WE KNOW? [CHANTING] BREA: SHERI, THE STRIKE IS UNDERWAY. THEY ARE CHANTING "NO FAIR CONTRACT, NO COAL." ONE SAYS "WE EAT RAMEN BECAUSE OF YOU." >> THEY ARE UPSET. THEY’VE...

Black women at the forefront of fighting for civil rights Share Updated: 9:34 AM CDT Mar 15, 2021 Share Updated: 9:34 AM CDT Mar 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript JEFF: WELCOME BACK ON THE SUNDAY NIGHT. ALL MONTH LONG, WE ARE HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN. BRITT DOUGLAS TELLS US THE ROLE THAT BLACK WOMEN PLAY IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THEIR FIGHT TODAY. REPORTER: AT JUST 21 YEARS OLD, SHE FOUND HER PURPOSE. ACTIVISM. AFTER THE DEATH OF YOUR FLOYD, SHE STARTED PROTESTING WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER AT KELLY INGRAM PARK. THEN IN HER HOMETOWN WHERE SH...

Local civil rights activists protesting House Bill 445 Share Updated: 10:48 PM CST Mar 8, 2021 Share Updated: 10:48 PM CST Mar 8, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SOME CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN ALABAMA FEEL INTIMIDATED BY A BILL PROPOSED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE ACCORDING TO A COUPLE OF LOCAL ORGANIZERS THE MEASURE CRIMINALIZES THE RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST WVTM 13’S BREA DOUGLAS. SPOKE WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR CONCERNS. NEARLY A YEAR AGO. WE SAW PROTESTS IN DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM AFTER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD HUNDREDS MARCHED AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE. HOPING ...