Tiffany Cross

Tiffany D. Cross (born February 6, 1979) is an American television personality, political analyst, and author. From 2020 to 2022, she was the host of The Cross Connection, a Saturday morning MSNBC show. Cross was born in Ohio. While growing up she moved between Cleveland, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia. When she was a teenager, she wanted to be the "brown Murphy Brown". During this time, Cross was also a huge fan of Oprah and has claimed to never miss an episode of her show. Growing up, her mother would often take her to the public library, where she found a love for reading and writing. Cross attended Clark Atlanta University, where she majored in mass communications with an emphasis on radio, television, and film. Cross has spent over 20 years working with media and politics, covering local, state, and federal campaigns and elections, as well as Washington D.C. politics. Her first journalism job was as a reporter at an Atlanta radio station, and she later worked for CNN as an associate producer in the early 2000s. Cross was also the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for BET Networks and later became a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. She has been a regular guest on MSNBC programs, most notably AM Joy, and in July 2020 she became one of the show's rotating guess hosts. Cross has also served as the managing editor of The Beat DC. As of August, Cross, Jonathan Capehart and Zerlina Maxwell were being considered for the weekend slot by MSNBC. In December, Cross was named host of a new two-hour show on MSNBC, Cross Connection (often stylized as Crosstalk), replacing Reid's AM Joy Saturday slot, with Capehart taking the Sunday slot and Maxwell hosting her own show on NBC Peacock. In October 2022, Cross generated controversy over Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's recent concussions. During her October 8 broadcast, Cross said the Tagovailoa's treatment showed that white NFL coaches fail to protect "Black bodies." In fact, the Dolphins' head coach, Mike McDaniel, is biracial and Tagovailoa is of Samoan descent.