Community street team’s partnership with police grows
NEWARK, New Jersey (WCBS) CBS2’s new series, Unifying America, highlights people trying to cross racial and cultural divides that separate so many Americans.
On Wednesday, CBS2’s Jessica Layton profiled a special organization in Newark that partners with police, staying at the scene long after officers leave.
The Newark Community Street Team has been around almost seven years, but its work to unify the city has never been so important.
There’s a special pride Daamin Durden takes in keeping the peace, protecting people from going down the path he did.
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Politically opposed groups find common ground through conversation
It s rare these days for people on opposite ends of the political spectrum to try to find common ground. But three years ago, 11 Kentucky conservatives rode a bus for 15 hours to meet a few Massachusetts liberals. We had folks within our community who said, You re crazy if you get on that van and go up there, said Gwen Johnson, one of the members of the Kentucky group.
Letcher County, Kentucky is coal country. It s Trump country. Leverett, Massachusetts is cobalt blue on the political spectrum. I was pretty darn suspicious, Johnson said.
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Unifying America” through a joint effort with CBS television stations on
Feb. 17. CBS local newscasts, digital properties and CBS News will dedicate the entire day of programming to reporting about how people from multigenerational, multicultural perspectives are uniting through conversation to overcome racism, bullying and unconscious biases. The collaboration will include stories from local affiliates; an exploration on the state of country music on “
CBS This Morning;” a profile on Hands Across the Hills by “
The CBS Evening News with Norah O’ Donnell” and interviews with bipartisan group Braver Angels on “
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