Michelle Li: Turning a racist voicemail message into a positive #veryasian movement

1on1 with Jon Evans

Michelle Li: Turning a racist voicemail message into a positive #veryasian movement

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Published on Jan 28, 2022, 5:30:58 AM
Total time: 01:00:26

Episode Description

Michelle Li is an excellent journalist. Several Murrow and Emmy awards are proof of her skills. But nothing in her two decades of television news could have prepared Michelle for the racist voicemail a viewer left her on New Year’s Day. By gracefully sharing her pain, and letting the world hear the viewer’s rant, Michelle started a conversation about race and discrimination against Asian Americans that has turned into the positive #veryasian movement.

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