This week on "Sunday Morning" (June 7)
Host: Jane Pauley
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HEADLINES: No justice? No peace: The nation expresses heartache, anger and hope | Watch Video
It was a week when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in all 50 states, and beyond, risked exposing themselves to coronavirus in order to voice their anguish at the death, in Minneapolis, of George Floyd, another black man killed while being detained by a white police officer. Correspondent Martha Teichner reports on the social and political upheaval of protests, violence, and demands for justice.
COVER STORY: The whole world is watching us | Watch Video
International observers, both America's friends and adversaries, discuss the anger and polarization in our nation that, they say, represent a United States relinquishing its global leadership and turning its back on the world. Special contributor Ted Koppel talks with Chinese journalist Liu Xin; Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes; writer-philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy; former Mexican cabinet official Jorge Castañeda; and Russian broadcaster Vladimir Pozner about what the past four years have meant for our country in the eyes of the world.
For more info:
- Liu Xin, CGTN
- Michael De Adder, Toronto Star
- Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief, The Economist
- Bernard-Henri Lévy on Twitter
- Jorge Castañeda
- Vladimir Pozner on Twitter
CBS NEWS POLL: The future
Compared to life today, the future of the next generation will be...
Better 28%
Worse 47%
The Same 20%
MOVIES: Pete Davidson | Watch Video
"Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson was a longshot when he auditioned at just 20 years old. Now, six years later, he is co-author and star of his first major film, "The King of Staten Island," about a drifting twenty-something. "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil pays a visit with Davidson to New York City's least-celebrated borough, and also talks with director and co-writer Judd Apatow.
To watch a trailer for "The King of Staten Island" click on the video player below:
For more info:
- "The King of Staten Island" debuts On Demand June 12
- "Saturday Night Live": Pete Davidson (nbc.com)
- Judd Apatow on Twitter
HISTORY: "Countdown 1945": The story of the first use of the atomic bomb | Watch Video
Fox News' Chris Wallace talks about his book chronicling the efforts of President Truman and the top-secret Manhattan Project to create the weapon that would end World War II. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
READ AN EXCERPT: "Countdown 1945" and the race to the atomic bomb
For more info:
- "Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World" by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss (Simon & Schuster), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio Formats, available via Amazon
- Chris Wallace (Fox News)
HISTORY: How an act of racial violence reverberates across generations | Watch Video
In 1921 a mob of whites in Tulsa, Okla., descended upon a black-owned business district and murdered as many as 300 people. Contributor Kelefa Sanneh, of The New Yorker magazine, looks at how a massacre wasn't even discussed generations later owing to fears of reprisals.
See also:
- Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa race massacre found: "For decades it was hush-hush" ("CBS This Morning," 12/17/19)
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CBS NEWS POLL: Police use of force
Police are more likely to use deadly force…
Against a black person: 57%
Against a white person: 3%
Race has no effect: 36%
ON STAGE: Keeping the lights burning on Broadway | Watch Video
COVID-19 has shuttered stages on the Great White Way, but there are some traditions in Broadway theatres that can't be totally turned off. Mo Rocca talks with "Hadestown" star André De Shields, multiple Tony-winner Bernadette Peters, Broadway producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, and with Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley, the couple behind the "Stars In the House" web series, about how the theater world is coping with the shutdown, and when shows may be expected to reopen.
For more info:
- andredeshields.com
- jenniferashleytepper.com
- bernadettepeters.com
- "Broadway Barks" (Bernadette Petters will participate in a live streamed performance on broadwaycares.org July 17 to benefit Broadway Barks)
- Bernadette Peters will also take part in an online streaming benefit concert for Broadway Cares on July 10
- "Stars In the House" with Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley
- The Broadway League
SOCIOLOGY: A crossroads for race relations | Watch Video
Americans are witnessing a national reckoning about racism, which has permeated all levels of life, producing different standards for whites and people of color. Correspondent Maurice DuBois talks with activists, educators and writers about wrestling with the problems of race, about white privilege, and about the need for parents to give African American youths "the talk" – instructions on how to behave in front of law enforcement to try to avoid negative repercussions based on their skin color.
For more info:
- Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.
- "How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide" by Crystal M. Fleming (Beacon Press), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
- timwise.org
- "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Revised)" by Time Wise (Soft Skull Press), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
- alyshiagalvez.com
- "In Central Park, white privilege has been weaponized before" by Alyshia Gálvez (New York Daily News op-ed)
- Mark Whitaker on Twitter
PASSAGE: Remembering Christo | Watch Video
The artist Christo, who – teamed with his wife Jeanne-Claude – became renowned for monumental, transformative and yet impermanent works of public art, wrapping buildings and landscapes with colorful fabric, died May 31 at age 84. Jane Pauley looks back at his free-spirited art.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Christo & Jeanne-Claude put Berlin's Reichstag under wraps (Video)
In this "CBS Sunday Morning" report which originally aired on June 25, 1995, correspondent Martha Teichner reported from Berlin on one of their most famous works: Wrapping the Reichstag in fabric, which revealed as much as it concealed.
GALLERY: The art of Christo (1935-2020)
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HARTMAN: Giving peace a chance (Video)
In a week where violence and conflict captured so much of the media's attention, Steve Hartman shows us some of the moments that have gone largely underreported – moments of dignity, fortitude and restraint among peaceful demonstrators and police, from big cities to small towns.
CBS NEWS POLL: The president's tweets
President Trump tweets mainly to:
Unite America: 35% Yes, 65% No
Divide America: 56% Yes, 44% No
NATURE: Hummingbird nest (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Pacific Palisades, California, home to a new family of hummingbirds. Videographer: Tom Rapier.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
SNAPSHOT: Black Lives Matter protest in Chicago (Video)
Photographer Ryan Bakerink documented, in black-and-white, the diversity and passion of marchers, and then, in color, captured the fallout of unrest in the city
GALLERY: Black Lives Matter protest photos by Ryan Bakerink
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"SUNDAY MORNING" MATINEE: Video playlist
COVID-19 has shut down the Great White Way and concert halls, but Broadway stars and musicians are performing in videos recorded especially for "Sunday Morning" viewers.
MOVIES: "We Are One" presents a free global film festival online
With theatres closed around world, 21 international film festivals unite to curate streaming content, including features, documentaries, and conversations with filmmakers. Films will be streamed through June 7 at youtube.com/WeAreOne.
For more info:
- We Are One: A Global Film Festival (May 29-June 7) | Film schedule
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