ilia calderón
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Is Colorism The Reason Dominicans Are Treating Haitians So Horribly?
Colorism is revealing the anti-Blackness that is embedded in the Latino Community.
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Ilia Calderón Makes History as the 1st Afro-Latina to Anchor a Major News Desk in the United States
It’s #BlackGirlMagic time (psych, it’s always #BlackGirlMagic time), and today we are celebrating Ilia Calderón, who, on Nov. 8, became the first Afro-Latina to anchor a news desk at a major network in the United States, when she replaced María Elena Salinas on Noticiero Univision. “It’s a great responsibility knowing that I’m opening doors for…
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KKK Leader Called Univision Reporter the N-Word, Threatened to ‘Burn’ Her as She Conducted Interview
A Univision news anchor, who has the patience of a saint and a will of steel, somehow managed to get through an interview with the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter who called her a nigger and threatened to burn her, all while she was doing her job. The incident started when Christian Barker,…