Tamron Hall on being unapologetically black

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The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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To kick off our Black History Month spotlight former 'Today Show' host Tamron Hall discusses how she became the first African American woman to host the show and what it means to her to be unapologetically black and unapologetically American.

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0:00.0	The K-POP Podcast is sponsored by T-Roh Price.
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0:14.8	Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up.
0:21.0	In honor of Black History Month,
0:26.0	we're featuring African Americans whose voices and perspectives
0:29.2	we think you need to hear.
0:30.6	So this week, we catch up with Tamrin Hall, the former MS NBC and Today Show Anchor.
0:36.8	We talk about everything, life in TV, life after today, and what it means to be unapologetically black and unapologetically American.
0:47.0	Tamrin Hall, the Tamron Hall, welcome to the podcast.
0:54.5	Hi Mr. Kapart, how are you?
0:56.9	I'm fine, I'm fine, this is fun.
0:59.7	This is fun.
1:00.7	I mean we talk all the time and have a little conversations and now we're going to let
1:05.8	everybody in.
1:07.8	This is actually fun for many reasons because A, we let people get a glimpse of our real lives and our real conversations, but also this is the first time you've ever interviewed me.
1:16.5	I know. And you're a TV star. And I don't know about that.
1:20.0	And a radio star. No, you, no.
1:21.6	No. And a podcast star. And a paper star. No, you know, a podcast star.
1:23.0	And a paper star.
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