Natasha Alford on Growing Up 'American Negra'

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Natasha S. Alford has always been three things: Black, Latina and an overachiever. Weeks after a historic presidential election, Maria Hinojosa and Natasha —a political analyst, journalist, and media executive— sit down to talk about solidarity between Black and Latinx communities and Natasha’s latest achievement, her debut memoir American Negra.

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0:00.0	For the first time, I felt beautiful.
0:10.0	I was like, wow.
0:11.5	I look like the girls on TV now.
0:14.3	I don't look like this fuzzy-haired girl, whatever it was that made me feel not enough of either identity, I now felt acceptable.
0:30.9	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. Today, a conversation with journalist Natasha Alford on growing up Afro-Latina
0:40.9	and being an American Negro in a divided country.
0:48.2	Hi.
0:49.8	Good to see us.
0:50.5	Oh, my God.
0:51.6	Good to see you.
0:52.3	Oh, my God.
1:03.0	Dear listener, what you're hearing right now is me wrapping my arms around the journalist and now memoirist, Natasha Alford.
1:04.7	I've been wanting to do this for a while.
1:06.0	And this is the right time.
1:07.6	Everything happens when it's supposed to. It's the right time.
1:09.3	It's the right time.
1:09.3	Natasha is an award-winning
1:10.9	journalist and political analyst who you've probably seen on CNN or MSNBC. If you're going to
1:16.8	lead this country through a time of division and partisanship, you have to have a consistent message.
1:22.6	She's also a media executive, the senior vice president of the Griot, a news organization focusing on
1:29.8	black Americans. At only 38 years old, Natasha had already lived several lives before becoming
1:37.5	the journalist she is today. She is a working class Harvard graduate, a former middle school teacher, and she recently published her debut memoir, which is called American Negra.
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