Archives: 2018

10/28: Lankford, Coons, Ryan

This week on “Face the Nation,” guest-moderator John Dickerson interviews Sens. James Lankford and Chris Coons about the recent spate of political violence. Plus an interview with Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Elise Stefanik as the speaker enters his last months in office. Categories: National, US & World News

Open: This is Face the Nation, October 28

This week on “Face the Nation,” guest-moderator John Dickerson interviews Sens. James Lankford and Chris Coons about the recent spate of political violence. Plus an interview with Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Elise Stefanik as the speaker enters his last months in office. Categories: National, US & World News

Remembering 1968: Tommie Smith’s Olympic protest

One of the 20th century’s best-known images is of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in 1968, their fists raised in protest, taking a stand for civil rights on a world stage. Smith would become a pariah to some, but a hero to many others. Today, some NFL players model his activism, using…

Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

With the recent controversy over Megyn Kelley’s remarks in which she questioned why wearing blackface on Halloween was offensive, “Sunday Morning” contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois looks at the long and complex history of white (and even black) performers painting their faces black. For more than 100 years, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment on stage and…

Nature: Spiders

A few days before Halloween, “Sunday Morning” shows viewers a spider weaving a web. Videographer: Carl Mrozek. Categories: National, US & World News

The 2008 banking crisis: Are we due another?

In 2008, the banking system was near total collapse, the stock market was in free fall, and government officials (it seemed to many) were as clueless as the rest of us. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger looks back at the housing and banking crisis that almost dragged the world down into another Great Depression, and talks with historian Adam…

Almanac: The opening of Macy’s

On October 28, 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened a small dry goods store in New York City that would grow into a retail giant renowned for parades. Jane Pauley reports. Categories: National, US & World News