Multiracial Whiteboy

Reginald Hardwick / Emmy Award-Winning News Producer

September 13, 2021 Kim Noonan
Multiracial Whiteboy
Reginald Hardwick / Emmy Award-Winning News Producer
Show Notes

Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director for the Illinois Newsroom. He was a news producer and manager at the NBC station in Dallas, where he won 7 Emmy awards. Born during the Vietnam War and later given up for adoption in the States, Reginald talks to Kim about the challenges that came with growing up as one of the only black kids in the small town in Colorado, the pressure to be excellent, and reuniting with his biological American father and biological Vietnamese mother.