b'Miller is the current co-host of CBS Saturday Morning. Photo by Michele Crow.ing. I had gulped my first mouthful ofan interview with WBGO in Newark.air at daybreak on a balmy Thursday inMillers father played a significant Los Angeles, at the end of a historicallyroleinencouraginghisdaughterto turbulent year [1967]. That afternoon,search for her mother. Dr. Ross Miller after holding her light-skinned infantwas a trauma surgeon as well as the in milk-colored arms, the woman infirst Black councilman to serve in the whose body I was made handed mecity of Compton. He was the first phy-to my Black father and walked out ofsician to attend to Robert F. Kennedy the hospital. I have often wondered ifat the site of his assassination in 1968. she had second thoughts as she left meOn Dr. Millers deathbed, he told his squalling in the nursery. daughter to go and find your mother.TheparentsofMillersbiologicalMillerdidlocatehermother: mother were immigrants of MexicanLauraHernandez,thepseudonym descent and would not accept Millerused in Belonging. Although they have because of her Black heritage. metfordiscussions,Hernandezstill And so here is a woman who is arefuses to publicly acknowledge Mill- Comfort Latina whose family is first-generationer. I thought, once she had met me, immigrants who felt the need to dis- she would slowly begin to change her criminate based on the fact they weremind about having a relationship with & trying to ascend into The Americanme, Miller says. They have not been Dream,andtheAmericanDreamin touch since the book was published.lookedacertainwaytothem.ThatIn her memoir, Miller makes deep Joywas really eye-opening, Miller said inconnectionsbetweenherfamilyse-cretandtheso-cialunrestthat shecontinuesto cover as a journal-ist.Nostranger tocoveringdif-ficultstories,she hasreportedonS EMI F I N A L I S TtheSandyHookPretty good gifts. Elementarymas-sacre,thekillingsFree delivery in MAPSOof Michael Brown and Trayvon Mar- semifinalist.comtin, the sexual as-sault cases of Bill Morial at a Black Lives Matter rally. Photo courtesy of NationalCosbyandHar-Urban League. veyWeinstein, feature story /17'