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It is not easy, it was not easy, Maria, because I am a shy person, even though I work on TV, people think like, when you work on TV, you are like extroverted.

It is so hard for me to speak about my personal life, to speak in front of people. I admit it. I am shy.

It was a long, long journey to find my voice, and a way to speak where I could tell my truth, tell this truth, and tell people that even though you see me today on TV, things happen, and it was hard for me.

Castings were denied because of the colors of my skin, because they never thought I could feed in the screens in Colombia, and they never thought a black person could anchor a main news show in prime time.

But she would achieve just that.

From Futuromedia, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inujosa, today a conversation with Ilya Calderón, the first ever Afro Latina, to anchor a national newscast in the United States.

After a life-facing racism, up close and personal, from her childhood in her native Colombia, to her rising career in the United States, Ilya Calderón recently published her first book, My Time To Speak, Reclaiming Ancestry, and Confronting Race.

Despite, or because of growing up in a coastal town in Colombia with limited resources and a river between her home and her school, Ilya learned from a very early age to confront both physical and invisible obstacles.

Ilya would go on to complete her higher education, and then became an anchor at a national news network in Colombia, before joining noticiero del mundo in Miami.

She then jumped ship to Univision, where since late 2017 she co-anchors, along with Jorge Ramos, noticiero Univision, the flagship newscast of the main Spanish language network in the United States.

It's a feat she achieved only three years ago, after a steep climb in which she had to deal with the racism in grain among Latinos and Latinas, and their acceptance of her.

But she also had to deal with the racism of white people.

Here's Ilya in a 2018 interview with a leader of the Ku Klux Klan for Agui Aura, which is another Univision show that she co-hosts.

The other female voice and laughter that you'll hear in the background is the Klan Leaders' Wife.

And I do understand that I'm probably the first black person immigrant here in your property.

Tell me you're an idiot, that's it.

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