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Nikki Giovanni, Black Arts Movement

The Atlantic · 3h

Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life

In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, she offered an inventive take on how the loss affected her: “I remember what’s important,

The New Yorker · 2h

Nikki Giovanni’s Legacy of Black Love

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto the scene in the nineteen-sixties already fully formed—it was concerned, as much of the Black Arts poetry of the day was,

Hosted on MSN · 17h

Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, the 'Princess of Black Poetry,' dies at 81

Nikki Giovanni, a prominent poet, civil rights activist and educator, has died at 81. 'We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us.'

Well-known Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni remembered

‘There will never be another like her,’ Virginia Tech remembers Nikki Giovanni

A poet. An author. An educator. Those were just some of the words used to describe Nikki Giovanni, by her colleagues, friends, and those who loved her on social media. Giovanni was in her third battle with cancer,

Biden offers statement on Virginia Tech's Nikki Giovanni

"Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter Kai—and all those who loved and admired that something special, her courage."

Virginia Tech community mourns Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni’s stirring “We Are Virginia Tech” poem received a standing ovation during a convocation following the 2007 shootings. “We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid,” Giovanni declared.

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What We Owe Nikki Giovanni

On Monday, literary giant Nikki Giovanni died at 81. Shortly after the news of her passing became public, there was a ...

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An appreciation: When Nikki Giovanni was young, brilliant and unafraid

The poet, who died Monday, set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by ...

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What Nikki Giovanni Taught Us About Resistance, Community, and Collective Liberation

For young people trying to find their way in a world marked by uncertainty and precarity, Giovanni offers more than poetic ...

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Nikki Giovanni's legacy: From Tupac Shakur tattoo to her secret for a long life, what you may not have known about Knoxville poet

You know Nikki Giovanni's poems and the power of her words. Here are some facts you might not know about the poet and author ...

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TN-born Nikki Giovanni never lost the urge to travel to Mars or survive on Earth | Opinion

Knoxville, Tennessee-born and Fisk University educated poet Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at the age of 81. She left an ...

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