Muriel Bailey, WBMA ABC 33/40: ‘You Can Be a Voice for People’

By Javacia Harris Bowser | For the Birmingham Times
Muriel Bailey knew she wanted to be a broadcast journalist before she fully understood the career.
“Growing up, every morning, getting ready for school my mom would have the news on and there was a Black woman who was a morning anchor,” said the New Orleans, Louisiana, native who currently serves as an evening anchor for WBMA ABC 33/40. “One day [that morning anchor] came to our school, and I was sitting there thinking, &lsquo