b'A Former New Orleans Mayor and an Award-winning JournalistCelebrate MilestonesHusband and wife Morial and Miller have made historyBY DONNY LEVITA sk Marc Morial about the time he served two terms as New Orleans mayor and he will give you a deep history of the citys politics and civics. Ask him about celebrating his 20-year tenure as president and CEO of the National Urban League and he can detail his role as a passionate leader of the civil rights organiza-tion. But if you want to see his beaming smile, ask him about the achievements of his wife, journalist Michelle Miller.Miller, current co-host of CBS Saturday Morning, released her New York Times best-selling memoir (in collaboration with writer Rosemarie Robo-tham) in March: Belonging: A Daughters Search for Identity Through Love and Loss.My wife is an incredible writer and storyteller, Morial says. I watched her write that book and pour everything she had into it. Im lucky that I caught on for the ride.That ride began in New Orleans, where Miller and Morial met. While Miller was working as a reporter and anchor at WWL-TV, 36-year-old Mo-rial became the citys youngest-ever elected mayor.They married at the Crescent Citys iconic St. Louis Cathedral in 1999. In many ways, the couple became the face of the city.Morials first mayoral term began in 1994, eight years after his father heldthesamejob.ErnestDutch Morial was elected in 1977 and served until 1986 as the citys first Black may-or. The elder Morial was a civil rights activist who fought to dismantle the ingrained segregation in New Orleans institutionsandtriedtoendpolice brutality.HewasmarriedtoSybil HaydelMorial,anothercivilrights activist, who would serve as a dean at Xavier University.WhiletheMorialfamilywases-tablishing itself as a political dynasty in New Orleans, Millers life began in Los Angeles.Only hours after I squinted up at Top: Michelle Miller and Marc Morial, courtesy Miller Morial family. my mothers face in the delivery room,Milller released her memoir (inBottom: The Miller Morial family with children Mason, Margeaux, Kemah and collaboration with Rosemarieher husband Julius West. Photo by Randi Baird Photography. she was gone, Miller wrote in Belong- Robotham) in March.16/ matters magazine / holiday 2023'