Season 6
17 episodes · 2021
1Hindsight is 2020: An Unprecedented Election
When a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and rampant misinformation converged, Americans were faced with an election unlike any other. This CBSN documentary follows voters around the country as they grapple with who they're voting for, how they're voting and the issues supercharging the stakes.
2The Right's Fight to Make America a Christian Nation
This CBS Reports documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series explores the fusion of faith and politics in a movement that envisions the U.S. as a Christian nation.
3What Does It Mean to Defund the Police?
This CBS Reports documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series explores the push to defund police departments and rethink the way communities protect public safety.
4Do We Still Need the Electoral College?
This CBS Reports documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series explores whether the Electoral College helps or hurts American democracy.
5The Student Debt Dilemma
This CBS Reports documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series delves into the growing demands to cancel student debt.
6Does the Supreme Court Need Reform?
This CBS Reports documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series examines growing calls to overhaul the Supreme Court.
7The Diversity Dilemma
This CBS Reports Documentary in the "Speaking Frankly" series examines when diversity measures can be helpful or harmful.
8Women in the Workplace: The Unfinished Fight for Equality
This CBS Reports documentary explores why are women still fighting to close the leadership gap in corporate America, which has widened amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
9Fighting for Paradise: Puerto Rico's Future
This CBS Reports documentary explores the growing economic inequality in Puerto Rico and the divide over whether statehood is the solution.
10Ghost Light: The Year Broadway Went Dark
After Broadway's unprecedented 18-month pandemic shutdown, CBS Reports' new documentary looks at how people on stage and behind the scenes pivoted to survive.
11Conspirituality: How Wellness Became a Gateway for Misinformation
A new CBS Reports documentary in its Reverb series explores how the yoga and wellness worlds became a gateway for misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the pandemic.
12Deepfakes and the Fog of Truth
A new CBS Reports documentary reveals the growing threat posed by technology that makes lies look true and the truth seem false.
13An (Un)Civil War: The Evangelical Divide
A new episode of CBS Reports Reverb series reveals that as Christian nationalism attracts followers, traditional pastors fear for their faith and the country.
14The New Pro-Gun Generation
A new episode of CBS Reports’ Reverb series investigates how gun owners are growing more diverse as increasing numbers of Black, Latino, and other underrepresented Americans arm up out of fear for their safety.
15Darien Gap 2021: A Haitian Exodus
In 2010, a devastating earthquake drove Haitians from their homeland to rebuild their lives. Ten years later in the wake of a pandemic-shattered economy, thousands of native born Haitians that had made their home in South America left their lives behind again and began making their way north to America. CBSN Originals met families preparing to cross the treacherous Darien Gap, dense jungle that correspondent Adam Yamaguchi trekked 4 years earlier to document the sacrifice migrants are willing to make in the hopes of finding a better life in the US.
16The Trials of Critical Race Theory
A new episode of CBS Reports' Reverb series examines the backlash to so-called critical race theory in schools and the impact on students and teachers.
17Being Different in the Deltafinale
A new episode of CBS Reports' Reverb series explores the history of anti-Asian racism in Mississippi's Delta region and a new generation that's demanding change.