Her book “Say It Louder: Black Voters, Our Voices, and the Shaping of American Democracy” will be released in July 2020. She then became a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. She was also BET Networks’ Washington, D.C. ![]() She is the host of The Cross Connection, an MSNBC program that airs on Saturday mornings. And it’s one of the reasons I wanted to preserve the moment-it was ours, it existed and it was super fun.Tiffany Cross is a journalist, media personality, political commentator, and author from the United States. It’s something you can’t hold onto, which makes it really cool. What’s great about MTV is that it belongs to whatever generation is the steward at the time. But the more I talk to people about the 90s, they really long for it in a different way. “At the time, I didn’t watch it much because I just didn’t have the time so I had no idea of the context or the impact. “For people who grew up watching MTV, that was the only place to go,” Kennedy said. She always kept a journal, but says some of the events she wrote about were so impactful that she still has vivid memories of them. Kennedy, now a morning radio show host on an alternative rock station in Los Angeles (she's also worked as a correspondent on John Stossel's Fox Business show) decided the timing was right to commit her memories to paper because of a general wistfulness for the 90s permeating today’s culture. ![]() People say to me, ‘What if your daughters read this book?’ And I say, ‘My daughters are going to read this and the man who actually gets it is their dad! He was the one that made me feel at home and loved and he’s awesome.’” “I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long. “Part of it was a deep-seated fear that God was going to strike me dead,” Kennedy said. That honor eventually went to former professional snowboarder Dave Lee to whom she’s been married 13 years. In her book she shares stories of make-out sessions that led to oral sex and that Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction almost became her first lover. She maintained her virginity but does not claim to have lived the life of an angel. If nothing else, Kennedy’s stints as a resident in MTV’s notoriously promiscuous summer beach houses would have hampered any political ambitions. I wasn’t going to run for office any time soon.” They knew that at heart I was a total jackass. “Later on, there was more specific wording as to what I was allowed to do in public and the press. “In the beginning MTV was totally cool,” she said. The scene was reported in The Washington Post, and soon Kennedy was discussing her political views on “The Tonight Show.” (Kennedy has long identified as a Libertarian, after discovering that socially she and the Republican Party are worlds apart). ![]() Initially Kennedy tried to keep her political views a secret, but all was revealed when she attended an inaugural ball where she met guitarist John McLaughlin and his companion Martha Stewart and proceeded to hike up her evening gown to show him the pink GOP elephant tattoo she had inked on her pelvis. ![]() The intersection between influence and trust definitely took shape during the President Clinton’s first election, where Kennedy found herself as the only conservative working at the network that helped galvanize the youth vote.
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