Giving voice to all communities
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Jenny Han said she was told by publishers years ago that people wouldn't read stories about Asian Americans.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, Illinois is expected to become a haven for people seeking abortions. Volunteers with the Midwest Access Coalition are helping women travel into and across the state for the procedure. CBS News national correspondent Adriana Diaz reports.
A group of women with different views on abortion rights reacts to the Supreme Court's controversial ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Columbia Law professor Carol Sanger says the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade means women are losing an established right touching on the most intimate aspects of family life – and face a new era of woman-shaming.
Columbia Law professor Carol Sanger says the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, which nullifies the precedent of Roe v. Wade, means women now face the imminent removal of an established right touching on the most intimate aspects of family life – and may now be subject to surveillance and prosecution.
With her sultry voice and precise stagecraft, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, known for hits like "Is That All There Is" and "Fever," exerted an alluring command over her audience as a writer-vocalist of jazz, pop and torch songs.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Peggy Lee (1920-2002), known for such hits as "Fever" and "Is That All There Is," demonstrated an alluring command over an audience with her sultry voice and precise stagecraft. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with biographer Peter Richmond and with Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells, about the singer's artistry, and her rise from a painful childhood in North Dakota, to becoming a leading writer and vocalist of jazz, pop and torch songs. (This story was originally broadcast on February 6, 2022.)
In overturning its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade on Friday, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has removed federal constitutional protections for women and turned the question of abortion rights over to state legislatures, precipitating bans on the procedure in many Republican-led states. CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford talks with law experts who say the conservative legal movement's decades-long battle to upend the right to privacy underpinning Roe will not stop with abortion; and with an anti-abortion rights advocate who believes banning abortion will benefit women.
The woman who grew up in poverty to become her city's mayor has been forced to address San Francisco's frustrating problems of homelessness and rising property crimes, which may be making this famously liberal city a little less tolerant.
Four years ago, London Breed, who grew up in poverty in San Francisco, became mayor. Since then, she has been forced to address the city's problems of homelessness and rising property crimes, issues that have frustrated residents and tourists, and which may be making this famously liberal city a little less tolerant. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Breed about meeting the city's myriad challenges.
