Welcome to Karen Hunter's Awesome.

I'm Karen Hunter.

And this is Women's History Month.

Every day I want to highlight a woman who is doing some things.

Okay.

So I want to introduce you, and you may know her already.

Her name is Nia da Costa.

Nia da Costa.

So I was, you know, I scroll on Instagram from time to time.

And my, as I mentioned before, my Instagram scrolling is really inspirational.

Actually, I get a lot of greatness.

I freak my algorithm, and I suggest you do the same,

meaning that you only get filtered in things that motivate, inspire, and also inform. I came across

this clip from Nia DeCosta. She was being interviewed and she was talking about her mom on vacation.

I'm going to get to that in a second. But if you don't know who she is, she is Brooklyn-born director and writer.

Her first film, feature film, it's called Little Woods.

I have not watched that, okay.

I didn't watch Candyman either, which she was also tapped to direct.

It actually became the number one top grossing film by a black woman

in the history of films. So you should know her, right, Nia DeCosta. I did watch Top Boy,

2019, one of the best series. If you have not watched Top Boy and Summer House, get your life,

all right? If you like The Wire or Snowfall, Top Boy takes you into London, into England, and all of the,

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