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A nurse’s duty

As the coronavirus outbreak spread throughout New York City’s hospitals, 47-year-old Bevin Strickland, of High Point, North Carolina, got up off her couch and put herself on the frontlines to help. Steve Hartman talked with a woman who is no ordinary hero. Source

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Artist Kadir Nelson’s “After the Storm”

Painters often take moments in history and capture them on canvas, and the current COVID-19 crisis is no exception. The paint is barely dry on one work by artist Kadir Nelson, who revealed his painting “After the Storm,” a celebration of the strength of the human spirit, to correspondent Lee Cowan. Source

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How food banks are rising to meet an increasing need

Charities are struggling to find new ways to help record numbers of Americans who are out of work during the pandemic, adding to the millions who already experience food insecurity. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with food pantries in New York, Maine and California, whose work in their communities is being strained — by increased demand, costlier supplies, and a reduced workforce — and yet has never been more valuable. Source

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“Sunday Morning” Matinee: “A Chorus Line in Quarantine”

As Broadway goes dark during the coronavirus pandemic, dancers have not let their passion go without an outlet. In this video conceived by Jeffrey Schecter and edited by Heather Parcells, they and 42 fellow cast members from the 2006 Broadway revival of “A Chorus Line” – each living in lockdown in locales across the U.S. and in Australia and Japan – perform the show’s opening dance in living rooms, backyards, empty streets and parking lots, which are cut together into “one singular sensation,” in a performance by turns nostalgic, humorous and unifying. Source

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