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Kellee Terrell

Aug 17, 2020

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Doing It My Way

Journalist Ilia Calderón on Anti-Blackness in the Latinx Community

The Afro-Latina news anchor discusses her memoir and how she isn’t afraid to confront racism

Book cover of Ilia’s book, “My Time to Speak,” against a yellow filter background photo of Ilia in the CNN newsroom. — Photo illustration; Image source: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

For some of us, our first encounter with Univision news anchor Ilia Calderón was in 2017 when a video of her interview with a Ku Klux Klan leader…

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