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Coal mining has always been a dangerous job, with one in every five miners ending up with "black lung" disease. But today, in Appalachia, miners are suffering from black lung at increasingly younger ages. "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with miners and union officials who say coal companies routinely break the rules that could help protect their employees' health; and looks at a new government proposal that might offer real protection for miners, but which is facing opposition in Congress. (This story was originally broadcast December 10, 2023.)
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including two-time Oscar-nominated actress Gena Rowlands ("A Woman Under the Influence," "Gloria").
In her latest film, "Between the Temples," Oscar-nominated actress Carol Kane plays a retired music teacher who is determined to be bat mitzvahed. Kane talks with correspondent Nancy Giles about how her own mother inspired her character; how Andy Kaufman taught her the "language" that their characters, Latka and Simka, spoke on the TV series "Taxi"; and how, as a student, she resisted the opinion of a doctor who said she should never set foot on stage.
Originally from Africa, donkeys (or burros, in Spanish) have been in North America for centuries. They were work animals that helped build the West, and today there are thousands of free-roaming donkeys on public lands, where they can overgraze and threaten delicate ecosystems. Correspondent Conor Knighton looks at efforts (such as adoption programs for wild and domestic burros) aimed at giving these social animals a better life.
In college Mickalene Thomas studied pre-law because she wanted to change the world. But then she saw an exhibition of photographs by Carrie Mae Weems, and she knew then what she wanted to do. The 53-year-old artist, who creates pieces celebrating women, is now being featured in an exhibition at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles titled "Mickalene Thomas: All About Love." Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Thomas about her muses and her mixing of media, from collage and silkscreen to rhinestones.
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
The Democratic National Convention will be gaveled into session this Monday in Chicago, a city with a long, sometimes controversial history of Democratic nominating conventions. Longtime party figure and native Chicagoan Bill Daley offers CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa a message to his fellow Democrats about the prospects of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket come Election Day. [Watch CBS News' live anchored coverage starting Monday, August 19 at 5:00 p.m. ET, streaming on CBS News 24/7, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, with primetime coverage from 8:00-11:00 p.m. ET on CBS.]
In this web exclusive, President Joe Biden talks with CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa about uniting Europe to support Ukraine, and relates former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's assessment of NATO's strength today.
We leave you this Sunday morning among horseshoe crabs at Gator Creek, near Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Videographer: Doug Jensen.
Zoë Kravitz has been an actress, producer, executive producer, and now, for the first time, a writer-director. She talks with correspondent Michelle Miller about coming from a family of celebrity performers; about her new film, the psychological thriller "Blink Twice," in which she directs her now-fiancé Channing Tatum; and about her attraction to stories of strong women.