Giving voice to all communities
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The Dish visits the South Carolina lowcountry to meet 89-year-old Gullah chef and cookbook author Emily Meggett, who is being honored for her lifetime of service to her community.
CBS News travels with a group of pastors and volunteers in Philadelphia to witness how they are responding to increasing gun violence in recent years.
Cyclists hit the streets this Juneteenth weekend to honor cycling superstar Major Taylor.
An Illinois city became the first in the U.S. to implement reparations in an effort to close the wealth gap.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. told CBS News that marking Juneteenth as a federal holiday was a long time coming.
Lt. Gen. Richard Clark made history as the first Black superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy when he was appointed to the position in 2020. He joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his experience and the importance of diversity in the armed forces plus how the academy trains cadets for a changing combat landscape.
Kris Van Cleave spoke with a descendant of Dred and Harriet Scott about their fight for freedom and how hundreds more like the Scotts fought for theirs in the same way.
60 Minutes goes backstage as "The Daily Show" comedian fine-tunes his jokes — and Lesley Stahl finds herself walking right into one of them.
Author and journalist Mark Whitaker visits Texas, where his great-grandfather became a free man in 1865, and meets with relatives for whom Juneteenth – America's second Independence Day – has taken on a special meaning.
On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Gen. Gordon Granger announced in Galveston that all enslaved people in Texas were now free. The day would become commemorated as Juneteenth, but for the now-free African Americans, the future was uncertain. CBS News' Mark Whitaker takes a personal journey to Jewett, Texas, where his great-grandfather became a free man, and meets with relatives for whom Juneteenth has taken on a special meaning.
