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.
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Knoxville, Tennessee-born and Fisk University educated poet Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at the age of 81. She left an ...
President Biden honors the late poet Nikki Giovanni, emphasizing her influence as a voice for equality and justice in an official White House statement.
The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights […] ...
Nikki Giovanni — a poet, author, activist and longtime Virginia Tech professor — was an icon in life whose work with echo for generations.
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Here are some of Giovanni's most notable poetry collections, children's books and works of nonfiction, which you can buy at ...
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