As the nation struggles with racism, CBS News veteran Michelle Miller gets personal
LA TimesMichelle Miller is a national correspondent for CBS News and co-host on the Saturday edition of “CBS This Morning.” She holds a photo of her late father, Dr. Ross Miller, a surgeon and activist in Compton, at her home in New Jersey on June 27, 2020. “He said, ‘You’ve got to put your blackness aside — you can’t be a journalist and a Black journalist,” Miller, 52, said during a Zoom call from her home in New Jersey. As Miller said in an essay she delivered on a recent edition of “CBS This Morning,” her father placed his hopes for the country’s future in Robert F. Kennedy, whose bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination was propelled by a message of social and economic equality that appealed both to Black voters and working class whites. Colleagues, some stunned by the revelation about her family life, called Miller and told her, “do more of that.” But Miller has long championed stories on Black history for CBS News, including one on her father’s heroism on the night Robert Kennedy was shot.
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