PBS’s Pioneers of Television: Breaking Barriers – George Takei & Margaret Cho

PBS has been doing this series called Pioneers of Television, and recently, the network aired an episode titled Breaking Barriers, talking about the racial barriers that have been broken over time in the history of American television, including Asian Americans, highlighting George Takei’s breakthrough role in Star Trek and puts his own personal context of being interned as a child with his family during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The segment also highlights Margaret Cho’s breakthrough television series about an Asian American family in All American Girl.