Giving voice to all communities
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When he won the Best Actor Oscar in 1964, he was not only the first Black actor to do so, he remained the only one until 2002.
"CBS Morning" lead national correspondent, David Begnaud, spent nearly a week interviewing the key people surrounding Louisiana's first posthumous pardon, descendants of the landmark Homer vs. Plessy segregation case. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Homer A. Plessy for sitting in a train car for "whites only." He died a convicted felon in 1925. This week, Governor John Bel Edwards pardoned him posthumously.
Eric Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City on Saturday
New York City is facing the biggest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since spring of 2020, but the city's new mayor is urging schools and businesses to stay open. Mayor Eric Adams joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the city's response to the latest pandemic surge, and combating crime.
The groundbreaking group of women being honored include a poet, astronaut, movie star, principal chief and school superintendent.
Best-selling, award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss her new book, "The Year We Learned to Fly." In the book, Woodson writes about how teaching children to look to their ancestors can help them overcome difficult times.
For Black women, childbirth can be a matter of life or death. Some lawmakers want to address the disparity.
Black women have a higher risk of death during pregnancy than White women. Some lawmakers want to fix the disparity. Jericka Duncan takes a look.
He had a hit with his breakout single "Old Town Road," about a horse-loving hip hop cowboy. But for his debut album, "Montero," the multiple-Grammy-nominee wrote songs about his real life as a gay man.
Adams used his family's Bible to take the oath of office in Times Square with members of his family by his side.
