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This story was first published on May 28, 2021. If you ask kids who their childhood heroes are, they’ll probably mention characters and celebrities they see on-screen. If you’re my age , you might remember looking up to the Power Rangers or Britney Spears. I, however, looked up to Ellee Pai Hong. That’s not an obscure actor’s name or an early ‘90s pop star that slipped your mind; Ellee Pai Hong was the morning news anchor on NBC Chicago in the early-mid 2000s.
“I’d say, ‘Well, don’t you want to watch the weather so you can figure out what you’re wearing to school tomorrow?’” Toyota actually co-founded the Asian American Journalists Association in 1981. . “That’s who I used to watch, and I’d be like, ‘Oh, that looks interesting,’” Hong said. “And to see someone doing something like that looks like me made it possible in my head.
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