Lisa Ling goes personal with CNN's This Is Life as she explores the history of anti-Asian racism

Los Angeles Times

Sunday's Season 8 premiere of Ling's CNN documentary series is the first of eight installments that examine how today’s divisive and often intractable issues involving race, gender and equality are rooted in troubling events from the nation’s past. Sunday's episode, titled “The Legacy of Vincent Chin" based on the 1980s anti-Asian racism murder victim, was prompted from Ling receiving racists tweets after then-President Trump called COVID the "China virus" last year. “I saved the tweet: ‘I hope you and your kids die from the Wuhan virus,'" says Ling.