Remembering Nikki Giovanni: Renowned poet and leader of Black Arts Movement dies at 81
Nikki Giovanni — a renowned, award-winning poet and a leading voice in the 1960s Black Arts Movement — died in Blacksburg on Monday from lung cancer. She was 81. The works of the retired Virginia Tech professor of 35 years focused on race, gender, politics, joy and love.
Family, friends, colleagues and millions of fans are mourning the loss of Nikki Giovanni. The acclaimed poet, Civil Rights ...
Nikki Giovanni spoke words and wrote them. The poet, civil rights pioneer, author, educator and activist died on Monday. Giovanni, who was regarded as a revolutionary writer and “The Princess of Black ...
The Chicago rapper was introduced to martial arts by his father, Sensei Gregory Jaco. The movement of Black martial arts was embedded in his community of the South Side and he came up through ...
The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights […] ...
Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the particular strengths and joys of being a woman. She insisted that her ...
The poet, author, educator and public speaker Nikki Giovanni has died at 81.
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