Giving voice to all communities
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It is now up to California lawmakers to consider more than 100 recommendations from a state task force on reparations to Black residents. Elise Preston spoke to some residents about what the proposals could mean.
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, ending our nation's apartheid. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, looks back on a watershed moment in American democracy when segregation was finally made illegal.
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which ended our nation's apartheid system. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, looks back on a watershed moment in American democracy when segregation was finally made illegal.
Kelefa Sanneh talks with pianist Jason Moran, curator of a new exhibition on the jazz icon at the new Louis Armstrong Center in Queens; and filmmaker Sacha Jenkins, director of the documentary "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues."
Homer Hogues was one of the last surviving Tuskeegee Airmen, who made history in World War II.
Detroit native and musician Brandon Williams closed out Black Music Month with CBS News Detroit.
The Supreme Court overturned decades of precedence in ruling that colleges and universities can no longer consider race as a factor in admissions decisions. Ruth Simmons was the first black president of an Ivy League university, and is now a President's Distinguished Fellow at Rice University and a Special Adviser to the President of Harvard University. She joins CBS Mornings to discuss the impact this decision will have and how schools can continue to work towards diverse student bodies without affirmative action.
A Detroit rapper and TikTok star hopes to revitalize the neighborhood he grew up in with his "Buy the Block" campaign. After months of work, he's made his first purchases.
Joe Watkins got a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania where Watkins not only ran track and field but also was on the basketball team.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for both cases.
