This past week, President Biden held his first formal press conference since taking office, and addressed a number of issues including voting rights, the border crisis and the pandemic. CBS's Allison Keyes talks to CBS's Ed O'Keefe. CBS's Janet Shamlian tells Allison about the Biden Administration's border problem. Meanwhile, CBS's Tony Dokoupil reports on the debate over immigration, and gives us a history lesson. The leaders of social media giants Facebook and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday, about whether misinformation on their platforms may have played a role leading up to the January 6th insurrection. Allison gets details from CBS's Skyler Henry. The week of Equal Pay Day, which highlights the pay gap between men and women, Biz2Credit released a new report that said women need to work 448 days to make what men make in 365 days. CEO Rohit Arora about how the pandemic was worse for women in the workplace. In this week's Unifying America edition of the Kaleidoscope, the nation is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. They were the first Black pilots in the U-S military, who had to battle racist view that they wouldn't be smart enough to fly planes. Allison speaks with 99-year-old Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, Spencer Crew and Paul Gardullo from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and educator/historian John W. McCaskill. Finally, Boston has declared March 26th, Leonard Nimoy Day, in honor of what would have been the "Star Trek" star's 90th birthday.
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