Kaleidoscope

Now you can get the Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes and all the major headlines you need to know daily on the CBS News Roundup podcast. On weekday mornings Steve Kathan delivers the “World News Roundup” and every evening you can catch up on all the day's news with Jennifer Keiper on the “World News Roundup: Late Edition”. Then, every weekend the CBS News team in Washington goes deep into the major stories on “Weekend Roundup'' hosted by Allison Keyes. Each episode features a “Kaleidoscope” segment that takes on social justice issues and critical topics like race, gender, disability, income inequality, and beyond.

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This week on  "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", a conversation with Maryland's new Governor, Wes Moore. He is only the third Black governor elected in the nation's history and referenced African American history repeatedly in his inauguration speech. Oprah Winfrey spoke at his swearing-in ceremony, and Moore visited what was once a regional slave port that very morning. He discusses what this means to him and to the nation, and his "rock star" status among Democrats who are already talking about his future as a potential presidential candidate.

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This week on Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, a discussion with CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan on her new CBS Reports documentary, "Black Twitter: The Twitterverse That Changed a Generation".

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On this episode of "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes", Allison takes a look at American theater and race. Veteran Director Sheldon Epps speaks with Allison about his new book, "My Own Directions", and what it has been like navigating the theater community as a Black man.

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On this week's episode of Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, a conversation about an intriguing art installation at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, DC. It is Black History Month, and the African artist, Georges Adéagbo, uses sculpture and found objects to examine themes of freedom and bondage in the space where President Lincoln lived, and developed the Emancipation Proclamation. Allison speaks with the CEO and Executive Director of the Cottage, Michael Atwood Mason, about how the idea came about, and what message he's hoping the exhibition sends to those who see it.

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This week on Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, the controversy surrounding the College Board's pilot curriculum for Advanced Placement African American Studies courses. A revised official version was unveiled this week after Florida's governor and other conservatives attacked a leaked draft - labeling it "woke indoctrination". But hundreds of African American studies faculty wrote an open letter defending the educational value of the course, and decrying what they call "censorship". Allison speaks with one of the authors, Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, chair of the Department of African & African American Studies.

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On this week's episode of Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, a look at how the community is doing in the wake of the mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. Allison speaks with John Kim at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, about how people already traumatized by racism are handling these latest tragedies in a space where emotional health issues are often seen as a stigma, and there have been hateful calls to hospitals from some. threatening more violence.

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On this episode of Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes, Allison speaks with Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, for a discussion about reparations. Davis provides details about the proposed $5 million lump sum payments and total debt forgiveness to longtime Black residents of San Francisco over what it calls decades of "systemic repression."

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In this week's "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes," we discuss the meaning of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's birthday amid the political and economic upheaval in the nation. Howard University Afro American Studies and Law professor Greg Carr talks about everything from the distortion of Dr. King's narrative to what he calls the ongoing war over the memory of Dr. King to the legislative fight over trying to keep schools from teaching slavery and equality.

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This week, a look at the staggering loss of at least 1.2 million public school students in the nation since 2020. Allison speaks with Jeanne Allen, CEO and founder of the non-profit Center for Education reform, about how this affects teachers and students, and what it could mean for education innovations that could bring seismic change to how young people are learning.

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