Kaleidoscope: Recent Episodes
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Host and CBS News Radio correspondent Allison Keyes goes deep into social justice issues across the nation. Each week, Keyes has crucial conversations on topics including race, gender, disability, income inequality and beyond. Kaleidoscope examines current systemic inequities from violence against Asian Americans to the continued police killings of Black men, the increasing murders of law enforcement and the rise in food insecurity as the Covid-19 pandemic continues. New episodes every Friday.
On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at the global HIV/AIDS situation and also some of the challenges U-S patients are facing as those with the virus are getting older. Allison speaks with Dr. Cesar Nunez, director of the UNAIDS New York Office, about its report finding that inequalities are hampering the battle against AIDS. She also speaks with Rev. Jimmy Gibbs, national chair of the National Center for Aids Research CAB Coalition, about the need for fairness in access to resources and research for people of color.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at how both people and nonprofits are dealing with hunger as Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season. At the Good Neighbor Settlement House in Brownsville, Texas, Assistant Director Belinda Bradford tells Allison many are short of food, particularly seniors. She discusses the trouble multi-service agencies like hers are having coming up with supplies this year. But Bradford also talks about the joy she get from helping others.
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Christy Woodenthigh’s family rushed to her home on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation when they got the shocking news that the 33-year-old mother was dead. They arrived to find no police officers, no approaching sirens, and no sign of Christy. ”Missing Justice”, a new 6-episode limited series hosted by CBS News reporters Cara Korte and Bo Erickson, takes you inside what really happened that night and how the issues in Christy’s case connect to the larger Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Crisis. Missing Justice premieres on November 22nd wherever you get your podcasts.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a deep dive into a report from the Human Rights Campaign finding that at least 32 transgender and non-gender conforming people have been killed in the U.S. so far this year. The LGBTQ advocacy group's state legislative director, Cathryn Oakley, tells us most of the victims are people of color. She also discusses the results of the midterms, and the community's hopes for legislation in 2023. This is Transgender Awareness Week, and Sunday is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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In this weekend's Kaleidoscope, Correspondent Steve Dorsey fills in for Allison Keyes. We hear from Mark Hanis, co-founder of Inclusive America, on some historic and diverse wins for candidates for state and federal offices. We also examine a Supreme Court case that centers on Native American adoptions and foster care.
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In the Kaleidoscope this weekend, CBS News correspondent Steve Dorsey fills in for Allison Keyes. However, Allison still has a report on abortion rights and how it affects minority communities. Steve talks about rising crime with Rachael Eisenberg at the Center for American Progress. Correspondent Cristian Benavides reports on the Latino vote in Florida.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at outreach to Black voters ahead of the midterm elections. More than two dozen African American Republicans are running for Congress, and there have been small increases in Black support for that party in the past two elections. GOP leaders are hoping that trend continues, and are strongly supporting black candidates including Georgia senate hopeful Herschel Walker. But CBS News political contributor and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright tells Allison his party is trying hard to energize Black voters as well.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a close look at the crisis in Haiti - which is roiled by gang violence, protests and shortages of fuel and food. Activists like Guerline Jozef, founder of the non-profit Haitian Bridge Alliance, think foreign intervention is a huge part of the problem. She joins Allison to explain why and discusses what the nation really needs.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", we discuss the problem of climate change and its effect on low-income, urban communities. Decades of segregation forced many Blacks and Hispanics into places where there are few trees and bad air quality, and temperatures that are at least 13 degrees higher than nearby wealthy neighborhoods. Allison speaks with Anna Bettis, Arizona Healthy Cities Program Director for the Nature Conservancy. The non-profit is the world's largest conservation organization, and has been partnering with others to help mitigate the problem.
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This week on "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a discussion about how skyrocketing housing costs are affecting people of color amid inflation and an increasingly tight market. We asked Paul Roldan, CEO of the Chicago-based non-profit Hispanic Housing Development Corporation. It's goal is to provide housing security. This as the mid-term elections are around the corner and both parties are reaching out to Latinos. We were curious about what issues are engaging those voters this year. But we began our conversation by asking Roldan how the economic crises is affecting Hispanics and Latinos trying to buy a home.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", an in-depth look into a study finding that innocent Blacks are seven times more likely than innocent Whites to be falsely convicted of serious crimes including murder, rape and drugs. The largest disparity is with drug crimes. Allison speaks with Samuel Gross, senior editor of the National Registry of Exonerations and lead author of the Race and Wrongful Convictions 2022 report, about why this is and what can be done about it.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, a look at the national economic impact of the nation's Latino community. The non-profit think tank, The Latino Donor Collaborative, came out with a report Thursday finding that the gross domestic product of U.S. Latinos would rank 5th in the world if they were an independent country. President and CEO Ana Valdez joins Allison to run the numbers, and also discusses the border crises and how the U.S. is handling the devastation in Puerto Rico.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a discussion on the rising rate of suicide and suicide attempts among Black young people. There is research showing that children as young as 5 years old are at risk. September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and we reached out to Dr. Christina Crawford at the National Alliance on Mental Illness to find out what's happening and what families and care givers can do to help.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a conversation about the female first responders on September 11th. Co-author Susan Hagen, of "Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion", joins me to talk about the women who died that day, share the stories of others from firefighters to EMTs who rushed to the scene to help, and how they are doing 21 years later. We also discuss why so few people are aware that women rescuers were on the scene.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at what couples are thinking about regarding having kids in this alleged post-pandemic landscape. Author Jordan Davidson spoke to more than 300 people for her upcoming book, "So When are you Having Kids?". She says many say they aren't planning to bear children, citing everything from Black maternal mortality to climate change to worries about finances.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at Women's Equality Day, commemorating the adoption of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. 102 years later, the non-profit League of Women Voters is rebranding this as Women's Inequality Day. CEO Virginia Kase Solomón tells Allison this is because many women of color weren't able to cast votes for decades after the ratification of the amendment. She also says women around the nation are dealing with an attack on voting rights, the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and the loss of many rights women fought so hard to gain.
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On this week's episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a look at the rise in evictions nationwide in the wake of skyrocketing housing and rental prices, expiring Covid protections and a shortage of affordable housing. Law professor and tenant attorney Sateesh Nori, executive director of JustFix, a non-profit that fights for housing rights and offers online tools to help tenants in need, joins the program to discuss.
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On this week's episode of Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, a discussion on how a range of issues including upbringing, religion, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade are affecting discussions of contraception in the Hispanic and Latina communities. Allison speaks with Dr. Erica Montes, an Arizona-based OB-GYN and creator of the Modern Mujer Health Blog, on how conversations that have often been fraught are evolving.
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On this week's episode, we're looking ahead to the November midterm elections, and what voters across the nation are thinking. Asian Americans Advancing Justice has released its 2022 Asian American voter survey, including opinions on everything from gun control to education, and what the major political parties are doing to engage that community. Janelle Wong, with survey partner AAPI Data, says the answer is, not much.
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On this week's episode of Kaleidoscope, a conversation about the worsening plight of women and girls in Afghanistan, detailed in an Amnesty International report that says their lives are being destroyed by what it calls a "suffocating" crackdown by the Taliban. Host Allison Keyes speaks with the co-founders of Unfreeze Afghanistan, a coalition of U.S. and Afghan women who advocate for citizens in that nation. Masuda Sultan and Medea Benjamin were part of a U.S. delegation that went to Afghanistan this year and discuss terrible things women are enduring there and what needs to be done to help them.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, our host speaks with Dr. Kavita Shah Arora, an OB-GYN North Carolina physician who chairs the ethics committee for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. They discuss an increase in women seeking sterilization in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade. Some are telling doctors they feel they have no choice.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope", host Allison Keyes discusses the lasting trauma for survivors of government-run Native American boarding schools. Many Indigenous students faced physical, sexual and mental abuse, and more than 500 died. Allison speaks with Kiowa Tribe Vice-Chairwoman Rhonda Ahhaitty, who knows the history first hand from her family.
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In the Kaleidoscope this week, Allison speaks with Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, on the civil right's group's nuanced support for the SCOTUS prayer ruling, and also its midterm election survey of Muslim voters and their views on everything from Islamophobia to President Biden and Republicans.
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On this episode of Kaleidoscope, CBS's Stacy Lyn talks with Dr. Lynn Goldman, the Dean of Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, about Monkeypox and how it's impacting gay men the most.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", it's the 50th anniversary of Title IX, a federal civil rights law barring sex-based discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal funding. The Biden Administration is proposing sweeping changes to Title IX that would expand protections to LGBTQ students and increases colleges' obligations to address sexual misconduct. Bonnie Morris, a gender and sports scholar at U.C. Berkeley, joins to discuss what the law has meant and what it could mean in the future.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", the nation is preparing to celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas were finally free years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Keyes speaks with entertainer and minister Tye Tribbett on headlining the Juneteenth Unity Fest in Brooklyn, New York, as well as the intersection of the holiday and faith.
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It is Pride month and many cities are holding parades, flying the Pride or Progress flags, and celebrating the LGBTQ community. But amid the joy, there is worry. Advocacy and civil rights organizations have been raising concerns over a spate of laws - mostly in Republican-led states - they say are attacking the LGBTQ community. Casey Pick of the Trevor Project, the world's largest suicide prevention and mental health organization serving LGBTQ young people, joins to discuss.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", the California Reparations Task Force's interim report that finds Black people are still being harmed by the effects of slavery. Task Force chair Kamilah Moore joins to discuss the details.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", Keyes speaks with Connie Shuck, a military mom, who is in the nation's capitol to honor fallen soldiers, as well as the troops still fighting for our nation. She says to be here, amidst so many other mothers of U.S. soldiers, helps them support each other.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we discuss a racist attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old white, suspected gunman opened fire and killed at least 10 people. This was after posting online that he planned to "shoot all Blacks". CBS News Chief National Affairs and Justice Correspondent Jeff Pegues brings us the latest on this investigation, including that the suspect allegedly planned to target far more than black people.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we discuss research showing that Black maternal mortality rose significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also finds that Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Allison asks Director Kanika Harris at the non-profit Black Women's Health Imperative why this is - and what can be done about it.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", we speak with Haitian American activist Marleine Bastien, head of the Family Action Network Movement about the treatment of Haitian refugees by the U.S. She says there is a race-based double standard in the way Black refugees and those from places including Ukraine are treated, and she is calling for a halt to deportations of Haitian refugees.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we discuss the National Urban League's 2022 State of Black America Report. The civil rights organization's president and CEO, Marc Morial, tells Allison that it details what it calls a coordinated attack on the voting rights of Black and Brown communities.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we look at a University of Washington study finding that people of color are more likely to be exposed to poor air quality than whites. This even though pollution levels across the nation have dropped since 1990. We revisit Allison's conversation with corresponding study author Julian Marshall, who says he hopes the findings lead to change.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, we revisit a conversation with former white supremacist Sean Gillespie. He served sixteen years in prison for firebombing a synagogue in Oklahoma City in 2004. He is also featured in the six-part docu-series airing on Paramount Plus.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," a discussion about research finding that girls characterized as "headstrong" and boys seen as "dependent" as children earn less than adults. University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy professor Robert Kaestner tells Allison it suggests that the roots of the gender wage gap are likely deeper than many think.
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This week on Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, we discuss the disparities in health screenings that are putting people of color at risk. During the Covid-19 pandemic more than 9.5 (M) million cancer screenings alone were missed. Allison speaks with Community Oncology Alliance President Dr. Kashyap Patel, who explains that among other testing, mammograms plunged, particularly for women of color.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we discuss relief efforts for Ukraine. Katya Malakhova is the founder of the non-profit Sunflowers of Peace, which has raised more than $2.5 (M) million so far. The mother of two young children is also trying to help friends and family still in Ukraine, including her 14-year-old niece, who got out, then was stranded in Hungary. She tells Allison it's been exhausting, but she and her country are not giving up.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, we discuss the feature-length film "Americanish." It is a first of its kind romantic comedy, made by, about and starring Muslim American women, pursuing their unique version of the American dream. Allison speaks with filmmaker Iman Zawahry, about her vision for this award-winning movie. It makes its DC debut this weekend at the 23rd annual DC Independent Film Forum.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, we look at some of the concerns the nation is dealing with including economic inequality. Allison speaks with Professor Randall Maurice Jelks about his new book, Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America. He offers his thoughts on contemporary problems in the form of letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, we speak with Cynthia Chavez Lamar, the new director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar is the first Native American woman to be named director of a Smithsonian museum. Allison asks her about her vision for the facility, and about the role of museums amid racism and issues such as climate change affecting Indigenous people.
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Not only is it Black History Month, but this week marked the 23rd anniversary of National Black HIV/Aids Awareness Day. It began as a grassroots effort to let people know about HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment in a community that is still disproportionately affected by the epidemic. Allison speaks with Marc Meachem at ViiV Healthcare, who serves on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS about why this continues to be an issue.
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There's been a debate around the nation over President Biden's promise to nominate a Black women to be the next Supreme Court Justice. He's already getting blowback from some Republicans and conservatives. Allison speaks with Renee Knake Jefferson, Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center, and co-author of Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court. Jefferson tells Allison this is long overdue.
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In this week's "Kaleidoscope," the legacy of civil rights pioneer, journalist, and suffragist, Ida B. Wells. Host Allison Keyes speaks with author and historian Michelle Duster, the great granddaughter of Wells.
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AT&T and Verizon are temporarily postponing service near some airports. This comes amid fears that the high speed wireless network could interfere with aircraft technology that measures altitude -- among other things.
The industry and the government are working on a longer-term solution; some experts are blaming poor coordination and cooperation among government agencies as well as technical issues.
On this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," American Airlines Captain Dennis Tajer, spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, explains.
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Civil rights activists around the nation have staged everything from public protests to hunger strikes over the failure of President Biden, so far, to get lawmakers to pass voting rights legislation. In this week's Kaleidoscope with host Allison Keyes, she speaks with Rev. Traci Blackmon with Faith For Black Lives and the United Church of Christ about why they believe this is desperately needed.
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On this week's "Kaleidoscope," we have an excerpt from "Indivisible-Healing Hate," a six-part docu-series produced by ViacomCBS's See It Now Studios with XG Productions. Host Allison Keyes speaks with former white supremacist Sean Gillespie on hate and the storming of the Capitol.
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A University of Washington study, which finds that although pollution levels across the nation have dropped since 1990, Black, Asian, and Hispanic people are still more likely to be exposed to poor air quality than their white counterparts. In this week's Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes is joined by Corresponding study author Julian Marshall to discuss the findings.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, a look back at race and policing in 2021. This includes fallout from the police killing of George Floyd, race protests, and the future of policing. Host Allison Keyes is joined by CBS News chief National Affairs and Justice Correspondent Jeff Pegues, who covered these stories throughout the year.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, the importance of helping those in need.Host Allison Keyes is joined by Simone Gordon "The Black Fairy Godmother," whose network of guardian angels helps women deal with everything from poverty to domestic violence.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes speaks with DC activist Jesse Rabinowitz about what he calls anti-homeless architecture meant to keep the un-housed from resting or sleeping in public places.
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In this week’s Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes sits down with Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould, the Executive Director of Missouri Faith Voices, to discuss the disproportionate toll student loan debt has on Black students. She says this problem is turning the American Dream into the American Nightmare.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss the future of space tourism. Billionaires Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Jared Issacman, launched missions to the edge of space. Passengers along for the ride paid out of this world prices ranging from tens of millions to a quarter of a million dollars. Will the price ever go down? Allison speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the American Museum of Natural History about this and other burning topics, including UFO's.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we commemorate National Hip Hop History Month. Allison speaks with Barry Mayo, a legendary programmer who became general manager at New York's KISS-FM, among many more accomplishments. Many believe Mayo was the first to play rap music at KISS, but he says it is a little more complicated than that.
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Some 3.7 million Native American and Indigenous people are facing direct threats to their land and culture from rising waters and temperatures to glacier melts. The Quinault Indian Nation is among them - with a Pacific Coast village at risk. Host Allison Keyes speaks with their senior planner, Kelsey Moldenke.
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There are reports of families in Afghanistan being forced to sell their daughters -- or body parts -- in order to afford food. This comes amid the ongoing fallout from the Taliban takeover and U-S withdrawal. In this week's Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes talks to Kevin Schumacher, deputy executive director of the non-profit Women for Afghan Women, about the dire circumstances people there are facing.
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In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Alabama. Parks was widely celebrated as the "mother of the civil rights movement." However, nine months earlier, Claudette Colvin was arrested for the same thing. On this week's Kaleidoscope, Allison speaks with the now 82 -year-old Ms. Colvin, who is seeking to clear her name.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope, a discussion about the use of police force against children. An investigation by the Associated Press, with the help of the Accountable Now initiative, found that children as young as six have been treated harshly by police, which included incidents from 25 police departments in 17 states. Allison is joined by Kristin Henning from the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law School. Henning is also author of the book, "The Rage of Innocence."
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, Allison is joined by Taisha Saintil at the non-profit Haitian Bridge Alliance. She discusses the plight of Haitian migrants trying to make their way from South America to the U-S to seek asylum. Thousands who camped under a bridge on the Southern border are gone -- many of them sent back to Haiti with limited housing, food and water.
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A new study from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies finds that Blacks in the rural South are nearly twice as likely as whites to lack internet access. In this week's Kaleidoscope, Allison is joined by the think tank's director of technology policy, Dominique Harrison, to discuss what the gap means in terms of everything from education to health care.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes is joined by Paul Gardullo and Kinshasha Holman Conwill from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture about the museums exhibition, "Make Good the Promises." The exhibition looks back at the Reconstruction era, the period after the Civil War, and what happened with Blacks and their quest for freedom.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss the nation's fascination with the case of Gabby Petito, the white woman who was found dead after her fiance returned from their road trip without her. Allison speaks with Jolene Holgate from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women about why women of color aren't given the same resources as whites when they vanish.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, a discussion about sexual violence laws in the wake of this week's testimony on Capitol Hill by the Olympic gymnasts who alleged the FBI turned 'a blind eye' to the abuse they suffered at the hands of former team doctor Larry Nassar. Allison speaks with Barbara Jimenez-Santiago, the lead author of a new study from the international human rights group Equality Now, which looks at the loopholes in sexual violence laws in 35 countries.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, a discussion about the trauma and illness suffered by those in Lower Manhattan on September 11th. Lila Nordstrom was a senior at Stuyvesant High School, just blocks away from the World Trade Center. She founded the advocacy group StuyHealth, after seeing how her fellow classmates returned to school less than a month after the attacks, and became ill.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss the fears that have come to a head for families and women now that the Biden administration has pulled the last U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. U.S. Country Director Naheed Samadi Bahram at Women for Afghan Women, joins Allison to discuss what is happening there, and what is needed to help the Afghan refugees streaming into the U.S.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, the debate within the LGBTQ community over whether to update the Gilbert Baker's Rainbow Pride Flag. LGBTQ organizations are considering what's known as the Progress Pride Flag, which adds black, brown, light blue, white and pink stripes to recognizing people of color and transgender members of the community. A survey on the issue will be released next month. Host Allison Keyes is joined by Eric Stanley, a professor of gender and women's studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, the Taliban takeover and the dangers women and activists are facing in Afghanistan. The last time the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, women were forced to wear burqas and risked being beaten if they went outside without a male guardian. This time, the Taliban says it will respect women's rights -- within the norms of Islamic law. Allison is joined by Yasmeen Hassan, global executive director of the human rights organizations Equality Now, who believes women and activists are still in grave danger.
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A new study finds that U-S Muslims are twice as likely to report a history of attempted suicides -- compared to people of other faiths. In this week's Kaleidoscope, Allison is joined by lead study author, Dr. Rania Awaad, director of Stanford's Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology lab.
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In a two-part special extended Kaleidoscope, we discuss the new pandemic eviction moratorium. This past weekend, millions panicked when the original moratorium ended. Allison speaks with Ronald Leonard in Daytona Beach, who thought he might become homeless. Allison also speaks with a landlord in Washington, DC who is also a tenant, about how she has been affected by the eviction moratorium, and shares her take on the situation. After some questions over legality -- and some political scrambling -- the CDC issued a new moratorium that will run through October 3rd. The Alabama and Georgia chapters of the National Association of Realtors swiftly sued to block the new ban, saying the CDC bowed to political pressure. Now there's a race to fast track the release of 46.5-billion-dollars in rental aid meant to help both landlords and renters, which has been stalled in many states.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss the future of space tourism. Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson launched missions to the edge of space. Passengers along for the ride paid out of this world prices ranging from tens of millions to a quarter of a million dollars. Will the price ever go down? Allison speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the American Museum of Natural History about this and other burning topics, including UFO's.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we look at a Washington, DC-based effort to end hunger. Allison speaks with Mark Bucher, the co-owner of the Medium Rare Restaurant Group and founder of the non-profit Feed the Fridge. The organization places refrigerators, filled with food from area restaurants, in places like schools and recreation centers to feed those in need.
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In the Kaleidoscope, we discuss Grammy winning pop star Britney Spears and a major victory in her fight to end her conservatorship, and we she has called an abusive legal arrangement. Earlier this week, Spears was given the right to hire her own attorney for the first time since her father began managing her career and finances in 2008, when she had mental health issues. Rick Black, executive director of the Center for Estate Administration Reform, spoke at a #FreeBritney rally this week, but tells host Allison Keyes, Spears is far from the only victim.
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On this week's Kaleidoscope, a violent July 4th weekend in Chicago. More than 100 people were shot, including a 5-year-old girl. At least 18 died. President Biden visited the area this past week, where he spoke with Mayor Lori Lightfoot about receiving federal help. Some Chicago activists are calling on Governor Governor J-B Pritzker to declare a State of Emergency over gun violence, but long time activist Tio Hardiman at Violence Interrupters NFP, tells Allison he has other ideas.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we look at the joy or dismay people felt over news that six books by Dr. Seuss will no longer be published over racist and insensitive images. Dr. Seuss Enterprises says books such as "If I Ran the Zoo" portray people - including Blacks and Asians - in ways that are "hurtful and wrong." But many global fans of Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel's works, such as "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," are outraged calling it an example of cancel culture run amok. Allison speaks with University of Virginia professor Sylvia Shin Huey Chong - who specializes in American and Asian American studies, what she thinks about this controversy that's been going on for years.
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In this episode, we discuss an analysis from the National Women's Law Center finding that Black, Asian and Latina women will be most at risk when Covid-19 pandemic eviction protections end. NWLC's Sarah Hassmer tells Allison they are struggling already with everything from rent to childcare to feeding their families.
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In this week's Kaleidoscope, we discuss a report from the Alzheimer's Association finding that many Black, Asian, Hispanic and Native American caregivers say they've faced discrimination and language barriers when seeking help for friends or family with Alzheimer's. Their top concern is that providers don't listen to what they are saying because of their race. Allison speaks with Stephanie Monroe, director of African Americans Against Alzheimer's, which is part of UsAgainstAlzheimer's.org, about the problem.
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In the Kaleidoscope, reporting from the non-profit newsroom ProPublica suggests that racism in the U-S Capitol Police Department may have exacerbated the deadly storming of the Capitol on January 6th. ProPublica reports that some Black Capitol Police officers think a racist climate might have made the assault easier. Allison speaks with the article's co-author Joaquin Sapien.
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In 2016, 94-year-old Texas native, Opal Lee started "Opal's Walk to DC Campaign," to fight to make Juneteenth a national holiday. On the Kaleidoscope, Allison speaks with the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" about her new project, and how she got started with her activism.
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On June 19, 1865, enslaved Blacks in Texas learned they were free...two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. More than 150-years later, President Biden declared what is now called Juneteenth, a federal holiday. In the Kaleidoscope, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who has long supported the legislation, held the gavel that officially declared the passage, joins host Allison Keyes to tell us how she's feeling.
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Welcome to a special – BEST of – edition of Kaleidoscope with CBS News Radio correspondent Allison Keyes. This week, for Pride month, we revisit Allison's conversation on LGBTQ rights.
President Biden signed a presidential memorandum protecting the rights of that community in February, and on his first full day in office, he signed an executive order extending existing federal non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, including in employment and housing.
Allison spoke with Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group. She began by asking David about the confirmation of the first openly gay Cabinet Secretary confirmed by the Senate, Pete Buttigieg.
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On June 19th, 1865, enslaved people in Texas learned slavery had been abolished...more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. That day is now called Juneteenth.
On the podcast premiere of CBS Audio's Kaleidoscope, host Allison Keyes speaks with Greg Carr, Howard University’s Chair of the Department of Afro-American studies, about the history of Juneteenth, which is now being celebrated across the country.
Allison also takes us back to her June 2020 conversation with Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, the first Black man to hold the position.
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The worldwide protests following the killing of George Floyd sent the media scrambling to cover racial inequality and police brutality. But has anything changed? And how many other stories have been missed?
CBS Audio is proud to present a new podcast featuring conversations about systemic inequities across America, hosted by CBS News Radio correspondent Allison Keyes. Topics include race, gender, disability, income inequality and more.
New conversations every Monday, beginning June 14.
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