PBS Detroit presented a half-hour special about recent Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame inductee Bill Kubota on its One Detroit show. The special aired April 30.
Kubota is a video journalist whose training grounds have been the streets of Lansing and Flint and DPTV’s One Detroit. He learned to tell stories covering the rise of cellphones and crack addiction, the coalescence of neo-Nazis and the Klan, of Vietnam veterans’ broken-hearted homecomings. He keeps honing his work on anti-Asian hate and the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin’s brutal killing, which created a U.S. pan-Asian identity.