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If there's injustice, what's higher you going to take? I mean, there's no option. You have

to be with your people. You have to defend your people. If there's corruption on the government,

you have to confront the government, and you have to defend the people. You are on the side of the

people. You will never be on the side of the

oppressor. Elia Calderon has made television history three times over as the first black woman

to ever host a national news program in her native Colombia, as the first black anchor at

Telemundo, and most recently at Univision, as the first Afro-Latina to lead an evening newscast for a major broadcast network in the U.S.

But this trailblazer is not sitting on her laurels.

Ilya is laser-focused on the here and now.

Thank you for doing this.

I am so glad, so glad to talk to you.

Your career has been one of many firsts, and you make it all look easy.

You make everything you do look easy.

But being the first is never easy.

It's never easy.

But the way I see it, Alicia, is hard to go through so many things that you have to go through,

to be here as a woman, as a Hispanic in the United States,

as a black woman.

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