CBS News Taps Alvin Patrick to Lead Race and Culture Unit

David A. Less A new book will explore the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological and musical revolution in Memphis, Tenn.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerPresident Donald Trump ended his press conference on Saturday after being pressed on the claim that his administration passed the Veterans Choice healthcare law.Trump was talking to reporters and supporters in the ballroom of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey when he touched on the US coronavirus response.He was challenged by CBS News journalist Paula Reid when he repeated his claim that his administration signed into law the measure

Famed tattoo artist to the stars Dr. Woo has just inked Zach Braff with a special tattoo in honour of his friend Nick Cardero, who passed away last month after a three-month battle with COVID-19.

Zach Braff is memorializing his late friend Nick Cordero with some special ink.

Ted Johnson CBS News has named Mark X. Lima the west coast bureau chief based in Los Angeles, where he will oversee news gathering in the western region.Lima most recently served as the vice president of news for Univision/Fusion.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker short story Everyday Parenting Tips that has Rich scripting for Ryan Reynolds to star and Paddington‘s Paul King to direct.

John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero, which told the life story of the Georgia lawmaker.

Witney Carson thinks Artem Chigvintsev will be “very caring” raising his and Nikki Bella’s newborn son.“He’ll be very compassionate,” the Utah native, 26, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, August 3. “Those Russians, you think that they’re very strict.

“He would lift all the weans in and sit them behind the wheel. “He said we were the first local group to have him as a personality and if ever Creetown Gala needed his help we were just to contact the family.“We never have done.”

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorCBS All Access has unveiled its premiere plans for previously announced The Stand limited event series, a Richard Linklater animal rescue docuseries, and new original series The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Harper House and Guilty Party. The Untitled Richard Linklater Project hails from the Boyhood and Where’d You Go Bernadette director and Knife Fight helmer Bill Guttentag.

Chris Willman Music WriterThis year’s Emmy nominees in the seven music categories include such familiar scoring names as Ludwig Göransson, Pinar Toprak, Nicholas Britell, Mark Isham and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross as well as figures from the pop world like Pharrell Williams, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Ingrid Michaelson, Sheila E and the RZA.Labrinth joined Reznor and Ross in being nominated in both song and score categories.

Ted Johnson CBS News is forming a race and culture unit, with Alvin Patrick named as executive producer.The network said that the unit will ensure that the news division’s “reporting reflects diverse perspectives,” and it will spearhead initiatives on race and culture and be a place for any staffer to pitch relevant stories.The news division’s president, Susan Zirinsky, said in a statement, “We must always be aware of how race and culture impacts our journalism – and, in terms of the future of

LOS ANGELES -- Annie Ross, a popular jazz singer in the 1950s before crossing over into a successful film career, has died. She was 89.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAnnie Ross, the legendary Jazz singer who was part of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross died in the early morning hours of July 22 at her home in New York City. She was 89.

Paul McCartney has called for the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to be renamed in honour of the late civil rights activist and US Congressman John Lewis.Lewis died at the age of 80 on Friday (July 17) from pancreatic cancer. He was the last survivor of the ‘Big Six’ civil rights activists, a group led by Rev.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News has a link to TV broadcasting that hearkens to the days of Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. But a new special set to debut Sunday evening was made available for streaming earlier this week.The hour-long effort, “Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis,” focuses on the Latinx community and the pressures placed upon it and other communities of color by the coronavirus pandemic.