
Moments of dignity, fortitude and restraint in protests
We found lots of remarkably unremarkable video of largely peaceful protests across the nation.
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Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent since 1996. Hartman shares moving stories about the extraordinary people he meets in his weekly feature segment "On the Road," which airs Fridays on the "CBS Evening News" and repeats on "CBS News Sunday Morning." "On the Road" is modeled after the long-running series of the same name originally reported by America's greatest TV storyteller, the late Charles Kuralt.
Hartman's stories are also used in thousands of classrooms around the world to teach kindness and character. In addition, with the help of his own children, Meryl and Emmett, Hartman and family host "Kindness 101." These segments air on "CBS Mornings."
In 2020, Hartman cofounded "Taps Across America" - which has become a Memorial Day tradition. Every year at 3 p. m., thousands of buglers and trumpet players stand on their porches and patios to play taps in commemoration of the holiday. Hartman was inspired by a story he did in 2013 on a man who played taps every night on his balcony.
Hartman has won dozens of prestigious broadcast journalism awards for his work. He has received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, four national Emmy awards and 14 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow awards, including a record 12 citations for best writing.
Previously Hartman was a columnist for "60 Minutes Wednesday" and correspondent for two primetime CBS News magazines, "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel" (1997-98) and "Coast to Coast" (1996-97). Before that he was a feature reporter at KCBS-TV, the CBS owned station in Los Angeles (1994-98), WABC-TV in New York (1991-94) and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis (1987-91). He began his career in broadcast journalism at WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio as a news intern and general assignment reporter (1984-87).
Hartman was graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He is married with three children and lives in Catskill, New York.
We found lots of remarkably unremarkable video of largely peaceful protests across the nation.
"The world is going through this horrible situation," Itza Rodriguez said. "A lot of people are getting affected. But if you go down, it's OK. Get up and start all over again."
Thousands of trumpet and bugle players will sound Taps from their porches on Memorial Day.
A Minnesota band director played "Pomp and Circumstance" for his high school's virtual graduation — all 22 parts. It took Scott two full days to make this video for his students.
Steve Hartman's kids didn't know who the world's greatest mom was — so the family went on a search for answers.
After you sew your mask, you may want to save a little fabric — for your white flag.
Twice a week in Anaheim, California, the cars line up by the hundreds. As one driver said, these meals mean "we can survive another day — that we can live another day longer."
"I believe it's our duty," Bevin Strickland said. "I believe we should be compelled to do something when we can."
"I don't have enough adjectives. He is one of the finest people in the world," said an 85-year-old widow who Greg Dailey shops for.
A Brooklyn man fell for a woman he saw out his window.
Some kids went straight to the phone to thank the pharmacists and the fire chiefs and the nurses tending to grandparents in memory care. Others used sidewalk chalk to thank their mail carriers.
We'll show some of my favorite "On the Road" stories and talk about the lessons within.
"He reached across that gap and took my hand," said Oz Dillon.
"And some little girl, who was 4 years old, said, 'Hi, old person.'"
A former Zamboni driver stopped 8 out of 10 shots for the Carolina Hurricanes. That left Steve Hartman wondering, how hard could it be?