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Nikki Giovanni, a prominent poet, civil rights activist and educator, has died at 81. ... Thomas Watson Giovanni, in 1969, when she was 25 because "wanted to have a baby and I could afford to have ...
In 1969, Giovanni began teaching at Livingston College of Rutgers University. She was an active member of the Black Arts Movement beginning in the late 1960s. In 1969, she gave birth to Thomas Watson Giovanni, her only child. [11] She told Ebony magazine: "I had a baby at 25 because I wanted to have a baby and I could afford to have a baby.
Giovanni had a son, Thomas Watson Giovanni, in 1969. She never married the father, because, she told Ebony magazine, "I didn’t want to get married, and I could afford not to get married." Over the latter part of her life she lived with her partner, Virginia Fowler, a fellow faculty member at Virginia Tech.
Giovanni was the recipient of numerous literary and social justice awards, including several NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal, and more than 20 honorary degrees from colleges and ...
Thomas Watson (1704–1732, England, p/d) Victor Watston (born 1936, ... John Wyndham (1903–1969, England, f), pseudonym of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris;
Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81).
While collaborating on the 1969 English translation, Borges revised many of the original entries and added another four, bringing the total count to 120. [ 7 ] In 2005, Penguin published an illustrated edition with a new English translation of the 116 entry 1967 edition as part of its series of Classics Deluxe editions.
Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.