It requires a lot to show courage and humility and apologize, especially when you don’t expect to be forgiven.

Restoration of benefits and privilege can be a hard road and one that often leads nowhere. Yet you can’t succeed without trying and Pete Rose is certainly trying.

Was his apology effective and will it lead to what he hopes it will? Angie Corbo, Ph.D. and Chair of Communication Studies at Widener University and Joe Karasin, Chief Marketing Officer at CircleIt and a proclaimed baseball fan, talk about Rose’s attempt at earning forgiveness and honor.

CBS’ upcoming show “The Activist” is already off to a rocky start with an onslaught of criticism for short-sighted thinking and hurtful actions.

Julianne Hough, one of the hosts for the production, made a concerted effort to speak specifically and remorsefully to the problems.

How effective where her comments?

Kyra Kyles, CEO of YR Media, a senior-level media executive, writer and public speaker on issues of diversity and representation, converses about it in this interview-to article.

What did Hough say that might be commendable, what could have been better, how could it have been improved and what can CBS and other networks learn from the errors that were made.