>> i am connor sheets in birmingham, alabama. over the course of last year, focused on the sheriff's office and basically looking at this practice, sheriff pocketing large sums of money that was intended to be spent in county jails. reported he kept over $750,000 of state, federal funds, and proceeded over three years and in the third year purchased a $740,000 beach house. he became the, quote, beach house sheriff and spent most of the air - >> not fit for human consumption. >> it was a neat product three inmate on the record have won,

i leave in birmingham, alabama, where dr. king made the statement. if we can capture racism in alabama, we can capture it anywhere. people going he -- some white people are going around white now, calling the police on black people without a reason. wake up america. donald trump is promoting hate. nobody wants to face that. get on your knees and ask god what is going on. some white people in america need to wake up, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. host: what about birmingham clarke?miss is this largely in the south are happening all over the country? guest: there is no community .hat is immune there are three african-american churches, three black churches that were just targeted next-door to the caller in louisiana. we see hate all over, in cities, rural america, we are seeing this in majority white areas where minorities are far outnumbered. this is a conversation that we need to be having on a national level. the caller makes clear that emotions are running very high. i think this is a moment for the country to reflect on our history

i was born in detroit and partially raised there but i was also raised in birmingham alabama down in the south among the king marched in all of the civil rights movement that was like the heart of this now and then birmingham alabama racism against black people it was more systematic they incorporated it in the system and i noticed that as a very young child in the school system i noticed that black children we were treated differently than the white. but the white kids would act out and do whatever and they would just give a barely a reprimand but black kids would do the same thing they would get funneled into special education classes they would get expelled i've always from that point wanted to know the ins and outs of systematic racist. this was like in the early seventy's when they started to take away the housing discrimination laws in made it bad you have to read als as a brick property and it has to be equal legally there was a white flight and that took all the money in the world and resources out and it just left a shell of the city and the people weren't in the way the pov

i was born in detroit in a partially raised the a but i was also raised in birmingham alabama down in the south among the king marched in all of the civil rights movement that was like the heart of it is now then birmingham alabama was racism against black people it was more systematic they incorporated it in the system and i noticed that as a very young child in the school system i noticed that black children we were treated differently than the white children the white kids would act out and do whatever and they would just give a barely a reprimand but black kids who would do the same thing they would get funneled into special education classes they would get expelled i've always from that point wanted to know the ins and outs of systematic racism. this was like in the early seventy's when they started to take away the housing discrimination laws in made it bad you have to rip houses and brick property and it has to be equal legally there was a white flight and that took all the money in the world and resources out and it just left the shell of the city and the people were impoveris

i was born in detroit in partially raised there but i was also raised in birmingham alabama down in the south of moment thinking marched in all of the civil rights movement that was like the heart of it is now then birmingham alabama it's racism against black people it was more systematic they incorporated it in the system and i noticed that as a very young child in the school system i noticed that black children we were treated differently than the white children the white kids would act out and do whatever and they would just give a barely a reprimand but black kids who would do the same thing they would get funneled into special education classes they would get expelled i've always from that point wanted to know the ins and outs of systematic racism. this was like in the early seventy's when they started to take away the housing discrimination laws in made it bad you have to rent houses and brick property and it has to be equal legally there was a white flight and that took all the money and the wealth and the resources out and it just left the shell of the city and the people who ar

but i'm down here in birmingham, alabama, building my business. >> good for you. >> good luck. >> there's a great italian restaurant called gianmarco down here. they're from the bronx. your people. >> italians in alabama. there's a story behind that. >> i'm sure it's a great restaurant. >> causing chaos at the white house, causing chaos for families by taking their kids away, that's illegal and it's immoral and it seems this president may want exactly that. do you remember what he said? about not wanting kids separated? i'm going to play you what he said and then i'm going to reveal our new reporting. also, we knew what the chinese intruder at mar-a-lago had on her but now law enforcement revealed what they found in her hotel room. new alarms, ahead. welcome to fowler, indiana. one of the windiest places in america. and home to three bp wind farms. in the off-chance the wind ever stops blowing here... the lights can keep on shining. thanks to our natural gas. a smart partner to renewable energy. it's always ready when needed. or... not. at bp, we see possibilities everywhere. to help the

i'm in birmingham, alabama. but i want to say two things. i think i was impressed with her. i was impressed with the secretary's interview but that's not -- to me, i'm not necessarily saying that's the reason why she left the administration i think at the end of the day directionally she doesn't want to push the envelope the same way the president wants to push the envelope so that could be the central reason but we have to hear from the president. i'm still processing and finding it hard to believe that he wants to push the issue of separating children from their parents. if he's pushing an agenda to separate women from their children at the border that's going to be a disastrous agenda. i hope he's rethinking that or there's people around him that are just waiting a little bit and saying hey, wait a minute, that's not going to be politically palatable in the united states. >> when you say that to him, you get fired. when you say this is illegal, this is wrong, this is too harsh, that's not america, you're gone. >> yeah, well, okay. so that again is another thing that i wan

third pick, quinnen williams, the bride of birmingham, alabama. his path to the nfl is paved with triumph and grief. he remembers when his mother's loving smile began to wane. in 2010 her breast cancer returned. this time it was stage 4. >> she wasn't smiling no more. she wasn't playing with me no more. she was serious. >> reporter: before her last breath, marquesha, surrounded by family, had one last message for her 12-year-old son. >> quinnen, you're going to be the one who take care of everybody, you're going to be the one who makes sure everybody is straight, i need you to do that. 10 seconds later, beep! >> reporter: marquesha died on august 10th, 2010. she was 37. >> after that i didn't talk to nobody for a long time. like some years before i started. >> what do you mean you didn't talk to nobody for years? >> nobody. i was more like -- >> one-word answers. >> yeah. >> what made that change, when did that change? >> it changed probably when i got in college. i went to alabama, there was so many people who went through the same thing i went t

we live outside of birmingham, alabama.ve four beautiful boys, frankie who is 17, stephen who is 1a, and then we have a set of boy twins who are four years old, and they are non—verbal autistic — their names are alex and will. we are the ellis family. my husband and i have known each other since grade school. we were friends the whole time. we dated in high school and married in college, and this is our 20th wedding anniversary. because we have some issues with the boys, we have not been on a trip in a really long time. they are not very effective at communication, so it takes a lot of intuition to figure out what they need. we have a lot of meltdowns... 0h, did he throw it? child cries. did he drop it or did he throw it? it's ok... when there are two autistic non—verbal children the behaviours can be exponential. sometimes they play off of each other. it's all right, it's all right, it's ok. before the twins were born we were just a family of four. and we had the two older brothers who kind of sort of got along, but not re

martin luther king junior was arrested in my hometown of birmingham, alabama. his crime, leading a peaceful march to protest the indignities suffered by the black community in the jim crow era. he violated birmingham public safety commissioner's ban on public demonstrations, which targeted the growing resistance of african-americans to the injustices they were suffering. while in solitary confinement in birmingham, dr. king wrote what became known as a letter from a birmingham jail. a stinging response to a group of white clergy in alabama who had denounced his tactics, and questioned the wisdom and timing of his arrival in birmingham. they insisted that he was an outside agitator coming to alabama to instigate trouble. dr. king responded famously, injustice, anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. in his letter he rejected the idea that african american s should be more patient for change. in the face of the daily indignities inflicted by segregation. in the face of violence and threats and intimidation. there comes a time, he wrote, when the cup of enduran

you are, i was surprised that book was announced six weeks before i had to select a jury in birmingham, alabama this was all about the climactic struggle for the rights and will never get a jury unfortunately your book is longer than mine and folks could not read it in that short peri period. >> thank you, doug. ... under the bridge which was a little river that runs south birmingham and that's where they would meet because remember, you know this as well as anybody there were a lot of informing during those days. the fbi cooks everywhere and they didn't trust anybody that is where it was hatched out along with a number of other people who had passed away by the time we started our investigation. >> host: robert chambliss she was thought to be responsible and he was prosecuted by an attorney general and you had a meeting with abraham was who was the legacy who'd been part of the southern christian leadership conference and was hailing the direct action of thing and you have a conversation that help you frame the narrative. i have sat through as a law student i was a second-year student in birmi

king wrote what became known as the letter from the birmingham jail, a stinging response to a group of white clergy in alabama who had denounced his tactic the and questioned the wisdom and timing of his arrival in birmingham. they insisted he was an outside agitator coming to alabama to instigate trouble. dr. king responded famously. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. in his letter he rejected the idea that african americans should be more patient for change in the face of the daily indignities inflicted by seg daition, -- in segregation, there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over. i did not see this experience as a young white child growing up in the nearby birmingham suburb. i spent much of my career as an attorney. i often returned to doctor king's letter to understand the forces that play at the height of the civil rights struggle. each time i read his words i am in awe of his courage and resolve in the face of such incredible personal risk. while we have come so far and while we have made great progress in loosening the binds of racial justice that constrained and suffocat

birmingham jail. to a groupresponse of white clergy in alabama who had denounced his tax xcom and questioned the wisdom and timing of his arrival in birmingham. they insisted that he was an outside agitator coming to alabama to instigate trouble. dr. king responded famously, injustice, anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. in his letter he rejected the idea that african american should be more patient for change. in the face of the daily indignities inflicted by segregation. in the face of violence and threats and intimidation. there comes a time, he wrote, when the cup of endurance runs over. while i did not experience this struggle as a young child, a young white child growing up in a nearby birmingham suburb, i spent much of my adult life and career as a lawyer, and former united states attorney examining the history and absorbing its lessons. i have often returned to dr. kings letter, to understand the forces at play and the height of the civil rights shrug all. each time i read his words i am in ah of his courage and resolve in the face of such personal risk. while we have come so far, and w

was the arson of the 16th street baptist church where four little black girls died -- >> in birmingham, alabama. >> absolutely. so when you get to a situation like this in our own backyard where you have someone who's the son of a deputy set fires to three churches, almost a month ago like you said start march 26th, april 2nd and april 4th, it didn't even get national news coverage it only got local news coverage and the notre dame burning down is the only reason the churches got any recognition. you have to look at the ideologies as well as the imperialism that's going on here when you think about a country like france that has done colonyizing in the same way as the u.s. has done across many nations so to watch someone like president trump as well as congress be so willing to offer support overseas is more of a nod to the white nationalism that we're seeing in the united states. >> again, i've been to paris, i've seen notre dame. i sympathize. i identify. i think it is a great loss and tragedy, but i feel the same way about these three historic black churches and i to not understand -- i do n

amy: angela davis, you returned to her hometown of birmingham, alabama, in february, originally planning visit to receive the fred l shuttlesworth award with the institute with through the award soon after the board was sent a letter reconsidering honoring you do to your support of the bds movement targeting the israeli government and israeli institutions because of the israeli occupation. facing swift and widespread outcry, the institute reversed its decision and reinstated the award but angela davis has yet to say if she will accept it. we followed you to birmingham. youas a massive welcome for as a birmingham daughter. thousands of people came out. we also interviewed the head of the civil rights museum who said she deeply hopes that you will come back to receive the award. what happened. what have you decided? was a reallyll, it remarkable moment. what impressed me so much was that especially black people, but also many white people, including jewish people, stood that support of the idea palestinians also deserve to be recognized for their human rights. it is not possible to believe

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ma>> nawaz: ...and paying along the way to rosa parks in birmingham, alabama.sharif says the black civil rights struggle in america isg informinand inspiring her own fight for civil rights in saudi arabia.-s manal rif's driving tour took her to the united states where she drove in the pride parade in new orlns. e joins me in the studio. welcome back to the "newshour". >> thank you. e driving video you first posted was eight years agola. year the driving ban was overturned. so why are you still protestingu >> b i promised my son when the driving ban is lifted d wive with him cross country in saudi arabia. unfortunately, the woman who ught with me against tis ban were all sent to jail, and that made me postpone my driving with my son. i've seen a lot ofomen being tortured ann asylum seekers running away from saudi arabia.h ght it was time to take a cross country drive in the u.s. because of the so-importantip relationetween the saudi arabian government and the u.s. government. the americans need to know the violation of human rights. there are allies who have bee

crow and civil rights eras.de that incthe 1963 bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabamar african american girls werl kied during church services.5, in 2 white supremacist murdered nine parishioners at a historically black church in charleston, south carolina. a juew weeks ago, three churches were set on fire in a single louisiana parish, in separate incidents. and we should note, the governor of wisconsin visited that sikh temple todayecs part of a l appreciation. this all comes amid a rise inme hate c let's look at a range of voices about the targeting of religious sanctuaries. ours is a small sampli of leaders of faith around the country. shakila ahmad, the first feme president of the islamic center of greater cincinnati. she is a founding member of the "muslim-jewish advisory council," a national group of business, political and religious leaders. rabbi devorah marcus is with temple emanuel in san diego, not far from the attack in poway earlier this week. ted elmore is a pastor with the southern baptists of texas convention. and, bishop eugene sutton is the head of th

a surveillance camera captured the incident right here near birmingham, alabama. unbelievable. >> seven vehicles were involved in the incident. five people suffered minor injuries. two of them were treated at a hospital. authorities are looking into what caused the truck to get out of control there. >>> we're getting our first look this morning at new surveillance video capturing the first frightening moments a utility pole crashed down on a passing vehicle in seattle. >> the couple that was inside that suv miraculously survived both the impact and being trapped by those live power lines. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: a dangerous domino effect seen in new video of more than two dozen power poles crashing down, one striking a direct hit on tom and linda cook's car. e le falling to the ground and i thought, wow, guess we'll have to find another way out. >> reporter: the cooks were trapped, escaping with scrapes and bruises but very lucky to be alive. >> i started to open the door and i heard someone say, that's not a good idea because those wires might

host: olivia, from birmingham, alabama, on the democrat line.ler: please allow me to finish my points as the young man did from massachusetts. clarke, you're are being very real this morning . i want to say this. some white people, i will judge everyone, some white people, until you wake up, until you wake up and recognize racism, nothing will happen. you have to judge your heart. that man from massachusetts, please take a seat and sit down. let me say this. donald trump is promoting hate and white supremacy in america. i'm scared. i'm afraid. i leave in birmingham, alabama, where dr. king made the statement. if we can capture racism in alabama, we can capture it anywhere. people going he -- some white people are going around white now, calling the police on black people without a reason. wake up america. donald trump is promoting hate. nobody wants to face that. get on your knees and ask god what is going on. some white people in america need to wake up, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. host: what about birmingham clarke?miss is t

i'm an investigative reporter in birmingham, alabama. i did a series of stories over the course of much of last year focused on the sheriff's office and looking largely at this practice of sheriffs pocketing large sums of money that was intended to be spent on their county jails. we focused largely on one sheriff. he reported he it kept over $750,000 worth of state, federal , county and local funds that had been allocated to feed inmates. that was over three years. toward the end of the three-year he purchased a $740,000 beach house. he became the "beach house sheriff." spent most of the year -- >> gave them dog food? >> not fit for human consumption. connor: it was tubes of grey meat products. three inmates on the record told me they had been serving, they had worked in the kitchen. they said they served this meat product to inmates. a lot of inmates lost a large amounts of weight in this jail even over small periods of time. there was a wide range of things they had to go through. you are looking at a range of different things. the she

. >> i am connor sheets in birmingham, alabama. over the course of last year, focused on the sheriff's office and basically looking at this practice, sheriff pocketing large sums of money that was intended to be spent in county jails. reported he kept over $750,000 of state, federal funds, and proceeded over three years and in the third year purchased a $740,000 beach house. he became the, quote, beach house sheriff and spent most of the air - >> not fit for human consumption. >> it was a neat product three inmate on the record have won, they had been serving, worked in the kitchen, until they served a meat product to inmates and large amounts of weight towards small periods of time and they had a wide range of things to go through related to food so looking at a range of things, the sheriff spent his money which when you get a pistol permit, it costs money that goes into a fund, the sheriff use that to purchase campaign ad during his campaign and a number of other things he has done over the course of his career. >> i am joe palaz

i'm an investigative reporter at alabama media group in birmingham, alabama. i did a series of stories over the course of most of last year focused on the county sheriff's office and basically looking largely at this practice of sheriffs pocketing large sums of money that was intended to be spent to feed inmates in their county jails. so we focused largely on this one sheriff who we found he had reported that he had kept over $750,000 worth of state, federal, and county and local funds that had been allocated to feed these inmates. that was over three years. towards the end of the third year, he purchased a $740,000 beach house. so he became the quote/unquote beach house sheriff. from there, we spent most of the year looking at -- >> he fed them dog food, right? >> not dog food. >> not fit for human consumption. >> so tubes of this gray meat product that three inmates on the record and one on background told me they had been serving to -- you know, that had worked in the kitchen. they told me they actually served this meat product to inmates. a lot of inmates

the broadcast was accompanied by coming-out parties all around the country, including one in birmingham, alabamaith everybody else. and that's what i finally did. >> we used to say ellen opened the door and we knocked it down. ♪ i love my mister ♪ tell me lazy tell me so ♪ tell me i'm crazy maybe i know ♪ ♪ can't help loving that man of mine ♪ >> take it, jack! >> and pas de bouree, pas de bouree, i'm gay! >> "will & grace" was a great show in sort of helping a mainstream straight community connect to the gay community. >> i think i can fix this thing with your landlord but might get a little ugly. >> play hardball, baby. throw low and inside. he's crowding the plate and we've got to -- >> grace, sports, you're losing me. >> i figured 25% of the country wouldn't watch the show just based on the fact that we had two gay men on it. >> give it to me! >> but if we could make believe that will and grace would get together. >> will, i told you, you live with a hetero long enough, you're going to catch it. >> maybe we could get people to watch thinking that would happen, knowing it would never happen.

for example 15 dollars an hour in san francisco is a whole lot different than $15 an hour in birmingham, alabamase red are states that aren't as economically advanced who are worried about getting reelected who are now opposing a national 15 dollar minimum wage and that makes a lot of sense. for editorial board right talking about effect of higher minimum wage at $15 that is having on jobs and crime. and the editorial writes what does this say about the democrats idea for a nationwide $50 mandate economists write that this minimum wage hike would generate over 410,000 additional property crimes. and two and a half billion dollars per year in additional crime cost, that's perhaps extrapolating past the horizon yet basic point holds a minimum wage with with little thought to the unintended consequences and you've written about this and talked about this as well. >> so yeah i go to your former business and i'm a big fan of fast food. tell america that right now. but the fact of the matter is whenever i stop it was help wanted sign in the store so if you have a market based solution, you would expec

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past tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators led by alabama democrat doug jones, marked the anniversary of martin luther king junior's letter from birmingham jail, which he wrote in 1963. joining senator jones were ted cruz and lisa murkowski. and democrats, kamala harris and tim kaine. sen. jones: i rise to talk about a great american.

next on book tvs "after words" alabama democratic senator doug jones recounts his prosecution of two former kkk members involved in the 1963 birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls. interviewed by author and journalist diane. >> senator jones, hello.

early in areas of tennessee, northeastern alabama, georgia, things may have got killed last night or in the process. we're down to 33 in nashville. birmingham. when the cities are in the close to freezing you know the suburbs are down to freezing. factor in the wind. wind chill values in the teens and 20s. a rough start to april. if you have spring break plans or know people that are on spring break this has not -- last week was ugly in florida. today bad too. cloudy and rainey throughout much of the rain especially orlando northward, beaches up to jacksonville that area is where it will be 58 degrees, cloudy and rainey. that's very unflorida like for april. unfortunately this new storm will form in this area. this one will become a nor'easter coming right up the coast. it will be far up off shore mainly coastal impacts. this is 6:00 p.m. tuesday. raining, ugly, windy in areas from cape hatteras up through virginia beach and norfolk. tuesday night into wednesday morning our computers are hirnting at the possibility of snow on the back side of this. watch around worcester, new hampshire and areas in maine as we go throughout the middle of th

alabama but that will be the last word. helped them with dogs and hoses people = to birmingham, that will be the last word they may do a musliman doma but i'm going out to the airport, and i will stand with my fellow americans. in aa present to gets inaugurated speaking to american carnage, but i'm coming up the next day in the women's march because i am having the last words. crossroad, are at a there will talk specifically about the but i wanted to know where we are. some people want us to get right in the gutter and fight on donald trump's terms. he wants us on his field. i don't think that is a recipe of losing our marbles -- morals, is a recipe for losing the election. they did not fight caught her on his terms, they did not bring your dogs and powerful hoses, they fought with love and change the moral imagination of the nation. be aboutcannot let it one guy in one office. cannot be about what we are against, it can be about what we are for. and if we want to solve and cure the tribalism and partisanship, the selection cannot just be about us. around and going saying we will unite americans, united for justice. choice, d

in alabama, authorities confirmed that a woman was killed after heavy winds caused a tree to fall on her mobile home in st. claire county, located about 35 miles to the east of birmingham. authorities say the woman's 10-year-old son suffered minor injuries. dana? >> so you're down there in atlanta. it's a holiday weekend. what is the impact on travel? >> well, the worst of the storm came through this part of georgia, the atlanta area just in time for the early morning rush hour. as you can imagine, this caused heavy disruptions to traffic in the atlanta area. in other parts of the country, heavy rains caused road flooding. yesterday high water forced arkansas state authorities to close ten highways in a seven county area, a motorist shot some video of flooding, which forced a temporary closure of interstate 30 in the town of alexander about 15 miles southwest of little rock. dana, as we head towards the afternoon rush hour, the storm is moving across communities in the eastern states. so you can expect many disruptions in those localities. >> everyone, take the warning. be careful. thanks, jonathan. so impeachment could be a loaded word for democrats turning into a pol

and in alabama authorities confirm that a woman was killed after heavy winds caused a tree to fall on her mobile home in st. clair county, l located just about 35 miles to the east of birminghamoon rush hour, the storm is moving across communities in the eastern states. and so you can expect many disruptions. >> jonathon, thank you very much. >>> now this story, the fox regional sports network sale finally over with one bidder hitting a home run. box fizz senior correspondent charlie gasparino here with details. >> this is an apparent home run. we should point that out. as bankers always do, they work the deal. they're looking for a higher bid. this auction has been going on since, i guess, november. it's part of the regula regulaty process. disney buys the entertainment aspects. had to sel21 are left. there are 21 that are being sold. the final bids came in this week. the process has come to an end today. what we understand is that sinclair broadcasting with, the same sinclair shut of out of the tribune deal appears to have emerged as the winner. the leading candidate. we know this. bankers are continuing to work the deal. they're clearly going back to the other potential bi