CBS News Sunday Morning Previews Voting Rights Act, Ted Turner Tribute and Mother's Day Segments
The Emmy Award-winning CBS News Sunday Morning airs Sundays on CBS at 9:00 a.m. ET. The program also streams on the CBS News app starting at 11:00 a.m. ET. Jane Pauley hosts.
Robert Costa reports the cover story on the Voting Rights Act.
The almanac segment reviews historical events on May 10.
Martha Stewart shares tips for a special Mother's Day breakfast. Her latest book is The Martha Way: Essential Principles for Mastering Home and Living - Your Guide to Cooking, Entertaining, and Stylish Home Organizing, published by Harvest in hardcover, eBook and audio formats.
Ted Turner, the entrepreneur who founded CNN, transformed cable television, raced yachts in the America's Cup and became a leading conservationist, died May 6 at age 87. CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Lee Cowan recalls Turner's life. Turner reshaped the media landscape, helped restore the American bison and directed his fortune to conservation, philanthropy and global causes.
CBS News Radio, founded nearly a century ago, will end operations on May 22. The service featured Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout and Charles Osgood and set standards for broadcast journalism. Mo Rocca reviews its history and speaks with staffers including Martha Teichner, who covered radio for decades, and Dan Rather, a former radio correspondent and CBS Evening News anchor.
The in memoriam segment honors notable figures who died this week.
Hope Edelman, author of the bestseller Motherless Daughters, started a global support network two decades ago for women who lost their mothers young. Faith Salie visits a Motherless Daughters retreat where participants share tears, laughter and sisterhood. Some attendees are now mothers themselves. The 20th anniversary edition of Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss is out from Da Capo Press in trade paperback, eBook and audio.
Jonathan Vigliotti comments on Los Angeles rebuilding after last year's wildfires. Efforts have prioritized speed over safety and strength, he says. Vigliotti wrote Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A., published May 12 by Atria/One Signal in hardcover, eBook and audio.
Comedian Martin Short has performed for more than 50 years. Tracy Smith talks with Short and director Lawrence Kasdan about the Netflix documentary Marty: Life Is Short, which covers tragedies Short endured since childhood and his response with laughter and joy. The film streams on Netflix starting May 12.
Other Mother's Day segments include one by the numbers, Pat Seftel on the holiday with her son filmmaker Josh Seftel, and David Hartman on a mother's love.
Web exclusives feature an archive profile of Ted Turner from September 30, 2018, with Ted Koppel. Turner discussed his achievements and Lewy body dementia. A marathon of fashion stories from the archives marks the Met Gala, with segments on Versace, Xtreme Beauty, goddess dresses, men in skirts, animal themes, Alexander McQueen, basic black, Dapper Dan, Vivienne Westwood, Nan Kempner, Abraham Lincoln's coat, Black Dandyism and Faith Salie's Met Gala observations.
Executive producer Rand Morrison oversees the program.
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