Kovie Biakolo
Kovie Biakolo is a freelance journalist and writer specializing in culture and identity, and the forthcoming author of Foremothers (2024), a narrative history of revolutionary women of the African diaspora in the last 500 years. She is also the Distinguished Lecturer for the Arts and Culture Reporting program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
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‘Nanny’ Proves That Black Representation Is About More Than Race. Hollywood, Take Note.
In the first installment of our Black Love series, writer Kovie Biakolo argues that depictions of Black love stories should be as vast and complex as the African diaspora itself.
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