“Part of my job is making sure that the doors that opened for me stay open,” Ilia Calderón said. “One day, when more Afro-Latinos reach positions, it hopefully won’t make headlines. It will be the norm. It has to be the norm.”
Ilia Calderón starts her new memoir with a dramatic scene—her 2017 interview with a Ku Klux Klan leader who called her the N-word and"a mongrel" and threatened to"burn her out" of his property in a dark, remote area of North Carolina.
“I decided to speak now because I feel comfortable, I have no fears,” said Calderón, 48, a familiar face to many as the weekday evening news anchor for the Spanish-language network Univision. “I have a voice, a space, a platform to speak louder and make myself heard, hopefully so others can benefit from my story.”
“Back then, the smell of kerosene wouldn’t arouse fears and suspicion in me;” she writes, “it was the fuel that nurtured reading, imagination, and my dreams of becoming somebody.”Univision
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