Kaleidoscope
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHost 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.
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Ukraine Relief
March 11, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBOn 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. See Privacy Policy at h...
Americanish
March 02, 2022 22:26 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MBOn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...
Letters to Martin
February 24, 2022 22:46 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBOn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
American Indian Museum Director
February 18, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
February 11, 2022 14:53 - 10 minutes - 9.17 MBNot 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...
Black Woman on Supreme Court
February 04, 2022 15:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBThere'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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...
Ida B. Wells
February 01, 2022 14:27 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
5G Aircraft Warnings
January 25, 2022 15:35 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBAT&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...
Hunger Strike for Voting Rights
January 18, 2022 15:01 - 10 minutes - 9.37 MBCivil 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...
White Supremacy Capitol Riot
January 11, 2022 17:46 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBOn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Pollution Disparities
January 04, 2022 05:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBA 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...
Police and Race 2021
December 28, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Black Fairygodmother
December 21, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Anti-Homeless Architecture
December 14, 2021 15:22 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Black Student Loan Crises
December 07, 2021 19:52 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Space Tourism - for Billionaires Only?
November 30, 2021 21:08 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIn 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. See Priva...
Hip Hop History Month
November 23, 2021 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.18 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Native American Climate Change Peril
November 16, 2021 18:41 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBSome 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Selling Daughters for Food
November 09, 2021 19:08 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBThere 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
Civil Rights Hero Fights To Clear Her Name
November 01, 2021 04:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...
Police Force and Children
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBOn 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 Innocen...
Plight of Haitian Migrants
October 18, 2021 04:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
Digital Redlining in the Rural South
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBA 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...
The Legacy of Reconstruction
October 04, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Missing Indigenous Women
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel...
Global Rape Laws
September 20, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 9.17 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy a...
Children & Health & 9/11
September 13, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Humanitarian Crises Afghanistan
September 06, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...
Pride Flag Battle
August 30, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBIn 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 U...
The Danger for Women in Afghanistan
August 23, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 8.92 MBIn 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 w...
Muslims and Suicide Prevention
August 16, 2021 04:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBA 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Two Takes on the Pandemic Eviction Moratorium
August 09, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn 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 politica...
Space Tourism - for Billionaires Only?
August 02, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https:...
Feed the Fridge - An Effort to End Hunger
July 26, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 8.61 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-in...
Free Britney Warning
July 19, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.78 MBIn 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...
The Battle Against Chicago Gun Violence
July 12, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.84 MBOn 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. ...
Dr. Seuss Racism Controversy Latest
July 08, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MBIn 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. Alliso...
Women of Color & Evictions
July 05, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.64 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Racism In Alzheimer's Treatment
July 01, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.83 MBIn 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...
Probing the Capitol Riot
June 28, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
(Opal Lee) the Fight for the Juneteenth Holiday
June 24, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.99 MBIn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Juneteenth Becomes Federal Holiday
June 21, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.33 MBOn 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...
The Fight for LGBTQ Rights
June 17, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 8 MBWelcome 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 wit...
Juneteenth
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBOn 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...
Introducing Kaleidoscope
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBThe 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 Ju...