*CBS News today launches CBS Village, a new cross-platform franchise that will showcase the organization’s inclusive reporting, giving voice to diverse communities.
CBS Village will be a dedicated brand for original reporting on issues that affect traditionally underrepresented communities featured across all CBS News platforms. Led by CBS News’ newly created Race and Culture Unit, this franchise will cover the breadth and depth of the American experience, with stories delivered on CBS News broadcasts, CBSN and digital platforms.
“CBS Village is an important franchise that will allow audiences to experience CBS News’ reporting on a range of issues impacting specific communities,” said Kim Godwin, Executive Vice President of News for CBS News. “Our hope is that by spotlighting this cross-section of our coverage across all of our platforms, we’ll help audiences connect the dots in these stories involving race, gender and identity and bring a richer understanding to the national conversation around the problems, progress and potential our nation faces.”
“CBS Village stories and reports will help people to be informed about diverse communities around the country and across the world,” said Alvin Patrick, Executive Producer of the CBS News Race and Culture Unit. “This franchise will now be a vehicle to deliver more of the incredible storytelling and journalism that takes place on a daily basis across all CBS News shows and platforms.”
As part of the new CBS Village franchise, on Friday, CBS News will debut “The Power of August,” an hour-long special created by the Race and Culture Unit, exploring the transformational moments in American civil rights history that happened in the month of August. Anchored by Maurice DuBois and premiering on CBSN at 8:00 PM, ET, on Friday, “The Power of August” will look at the violent and tragic incidents that laid bare the callous disregard for the lives of African Americans, such as the murder of Emmett Till on August 28, 1955. It will also highlight moments of triumph and hope that seemed to show the country moving forward in the struggle for equality, like the March on Washington, which also occurred on August 28 in 1963. The special will look at how the impact of these August events is still felt today in the tumultuous year of 2020, when the voting power of Black Americans will be key in the presidential election.
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