Calendar: Week of January 20
Here's a look at the week ahead -- on our Sunday Morning Calendar:
Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring the memory of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader. National parks will be offering free admission all day.
MLK Day of National & Community Service (Corporation for National and Community Service)How Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday (USA Today)
On Tuesday, the impeachment trial of President Trump is scheduled to begin in the U.S. Senate.
Senate impeachment trial expected to start Tuesday, January 21 (CBS News, 1/13/20)Senate impeachment trial is opportunity for Chief Justice Roberts to show "nonpartisan nature" of judges ("CBS This Morning," 1/17/20)White House expects GOP defections on calling witnesses in Senate impeachment trial (CBS News, 1/14/20)Pelosi says Republicans are "afraid" to allow new evidence at impeachment trial (CBS News, 1/16/20)Trump calls Senate impeachment trial "total hoax" (CBS News, 1/16/20)
Wednesday sees the African-American Film Critics Association Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
African-American Film Critics Association Awards, January 22, at the Taglyan Complex in HollywoodWinners of the 2019 African-American Film Critics Association Awards
Lupita Nyong'o meets one of the "Tethereds" in Jordan Peele's horror film "Us," winner of the African-American Film Critics Association Best Film Award:
Us (2019) - Burning the Tethered Scene (10/10) | Movieclips by Movieclips on YouTube
Thursday kicks off the World Buskers Festival in Christchurch New Zealand, featuring 60 street performers from across the planet.
Bread & Circus: World Buskers Festival 2020 (January 23-February 16) Bread & Circus - World Buskers Festival 2020 by Bread & Circus - World Buskers Festival on YouTube
On Friday, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond turns 79.
Legends say goodbye: Neil Diamond, Sir Elton John to retire from touring ("Sunday Morning," 1/28/18)Neil Diamond goes back to Brooklyn, where it all began ("CBS This Morning," 10/23/14)Finding the essential Neil Diamond ("Sunday Morning," 11/6/05)Neil Diamond - from Brooklyn to music legend (CBS News, 12/21/11)neildiamond.com
Neil Diamond performs "Song Sung Blue" – a "glad song," he says:
Neil Diamond - Song sung blue 1972 by fritz51346 on YouTube
And Saturday rings in the Chinese Lunar New Year ... the "Year of the Rat," according to the Chinese zodiac.
chinesenewyear.netChinese New Year Taboos
Story produced by Robert Marston.
Michelle Carter's texts with Conrad Roy
