Kovie BiakoloinZORAThe Rise and Reimagining of MTVMTV is 40 years old, found its fortune with Gen X, and has reinvented itself for every generation since·4 min read·Aug 1, 2021--2--2
Kovie BiakoloinZORAI Will Not Change My Name Because You Can’t Pronounce ItThe roots of name discrimination are an extension of the harms caused by slavery and colonialism·6 min read·Feb 4, 2021--35--35
Kovie BiakoloinZORAThe Cities Where Gentrification and Covid-19 CollideA look at the crises impacting people of color in Miami, Oakland, and Brooklyn, where residents fight to protect their communities·13 min read·Sep 17, 2020----
Kovie BiakoloinZORAWhat Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Gets Wrong About Blackness and NigeriaShe has often said she became Black in the United States, but what does this really mean?·9 min read·Oct 31, 2019--16--16
Kovie BiakoloSurvival and Other Important MattersNote: You can listen to an audio of this piece here: Survival and Other Important Matters.7 min read·Dec 19, 2016--2--2
Kovie BiakoloThings you can do to Help Haiti right now, hit by Hurricane MatthewI initally just wrote this on my Facebook as a way to answer the question, “What can we do?” when disaster strikes in a place. I thought I…1 min read·Oct 7, 2016----
Kovie BiakoloMourning the Loss of My 12,000 TweetsYesterday afternoon, I attempted to use an app to delete a majority of my tweets, hoping to keep my “Twitter memory” within one year. It’s…10 min read·Oct 4, 2016----
Kovie BiakoloRudyard Kipling is My DemonIt is always such a disappointment when we discover that people we admire — both those in the present as well as the past — held or hold…5 min read·Sep 12, 2016--31--31
Kovie BiakoloA Note on BrexitWhen you consider the heightened ethno-nationalism sweeping the West currently, Brexit isn’t surprising. On a personal level however, I…3 min read·Jun 24, 2016----
Kovie BiakoloDo We Silence Moderate Voices?Privileging Loudness at the Expense of Moderation3 min read·Oct 17, 2013----