Richard Lui’s 30-year career sits at the intersection of politics, journalism, technology, filmmaking, publishing, and finance. Currently he is news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News and formerly at CNN Worldwide. In 2007, he became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily national news broadcast in America.

Lui is one of the rare AAPI speakers with authority and on the ground experience on the complex topic of race, driven by his journalistic experience.

A civil rights reporter, Lui reported on the ground in Ferguson, Baltimore, and New York during heightened racial unrest, beginning with Rodney King in 1992 as a cub radio reporter. Following 2021’s Atlanta spa...