Abiola Abrams | |
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Born | Abiola Wednesday Abrams 1976 (age 35–36) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | author, filmmaker, TV personality |
Known for | Television talking head, books, blogging, Video blogging |
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www.abiolatv.com |
Abiola Abrams (born 1976) is an American TV host, internet personality, art filmmaker, and author.[1][2] She is the author of Dare, a love story retelling of Faust set in the hip hop world and creator of a lifestyle blog and web video series at AbiolaTV.com.
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Abiola Abrams is currently a BBC Entertainment Correspondent and former host of The Best Shorts,[1] Black Entertainment Television's (BET) indie film showcase and competition.[2]
Abiola also appears on My Two Cents, a panel-style show also on her network's Centric, formerly BET J.
She has hosted or co-hosted such shows as the syndicated The Source: All Access, Source Magazine's hip hop show, and Chat Zone, an HBO interstitial talk show billed as Politically Incorrect for the MTV set, and appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show as a part of his red carpet interview coverage of The 2007 BET Awards in Los Angeles.
In Spring 2009, she was featured as the overly selective "Miss Picky," an advice columnist and one of the eight single women seeking love on VH1's reality television show Tough Love.
In Spring 2011 she starred as a Dating Empowerment Coach helping a geeky teenager find love and become a Ladies Man on MTV's reality television show Made.
In addition she has guest starred on TV series such as Law & Order and soap opera All My Children and appears as a pop culture talking head on networks such as FOX.
Her mini-films, documentaries, and plays have been shown and performed in galleries, festivals, theaters, and museums throughout the US, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Dare (ISBN 1-4165-4166-7, ISBN 978-1-4165-4166-0), Abiola Abrams' debut novel, was published by Simon and Schuster on December 11, 2007.[1]
Her writing is featured in playwright/activist Eve Ensler's current anthology A Memory, A Monologue a Rant and A Prayer (ISBN 978-0-345-49791-8) alongside such writers as Maya Angelou, Edward Albee, Alice Walker, and Edwidge Danticat.
In addition, essays by Abiola Abrams will be featured in the upcoming anthologies Behind the Bedroom Door, edited by Paula Derrow, and Dirty Words: An Encyclopedia of Sex, edited by Ellen Sussman. Abiola Abrams is the founder of The Goddess Factory, a fun, inspirational movement to motivate and empower primarily women, but also people of all backgrounds, culturally, emotionally, politically and sexually. In addition to her personal blog she writes for several publications and websites.
She is a first generation Guyanese-American who was raised in New York City. Abrams earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College.[3]
Abrams is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Abrams was a featured speaker at Alycia Kaback's NYC Women's Empowerment Summit.[4]