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“You sound like a poet.” When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it.
The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights era.” President Joe Biden eulogized Nikki Giovanni in an official White House ...
Giovanni died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia at the age of 81. Her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, said she died in a hospital due to complications of… Biden mourns ‘pioneering’ poet Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
On Monday, Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., renowned American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator died at the age of 81. ... One of Giovanni’s quotes from her anthology ...
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is a 2023 documentary film directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. It explores the life and career of American poet Nikki Giovanni . It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, and was released in a limited release on November 3 by HBO Documentary Films prior to ...
— Austin Howell, American free solo rock climber (30 June 2019), prior to falling to his death from Shortoff Mountain in North Carolina "I can't fix myself." [182] — Elijah McClain, American massage therapist (24 August 2019), after being put in a chokehold by an arresting Aurora, Colorado, police officer
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Giovanni was a prolific writer, activist, educator ...