Real Talk on Life, Loss, Longing and Belonging
Michelle Miller is an Emmy, Gracie, DuPont, and Murrow award-winning journalist who co-hosts CBS Saturday Morning. Her work is also regularly featured on CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning and CBS Evening News, and she has appeared as a correspondent on 48 Hours.
Miller’s New York Times bestselling biography, Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love is a candid memoir of her search for the Chicana mother who deserted her at birth and her subsequent struggle to make sense of who she was and was meant to be. This lifelong quest would shape her voice as a Black woman in white newsrooms. Her complicated family story and her racial identity resonates with the nation’s ongoing, imperfect racial reckoning.
Carolyn “Cookie” Minick Mason is a media host, philanthropist, and activist. Her mission is to provide children with access to arts education and culture. As a board member of the Apollo Theater Foundation & co-chair of the Nominating & Development committee, she works to honor the influence of African American artists and advance creative voices.
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