Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more sleepin’ ...
After learning that Nikki Giovanni, a world-renowned Black poet and Black Arts Movement leader, passed away at 81, many ...
Trailblazing poet, writer, activist, educator, and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni passed away on Monday at the age of 81. Per NPR, Giovanni’s passing came after she was diagnosed ...
It established her as an emerging figure out of the Black Arts Movement. In it, Giovanni writes about the intersections of love, politics, loneliness and race. Her language is sometimes spare and ...
Award-winning US poet Nikki Giovanni, who was at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement, died aged 81 after a long battle with cancer, local media reported Tuesday. Award-winning US poet Nikki ...
Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the ...
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet, activist and leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has died. The author died on Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Va., following her third ...
It established her as an emerging figure out of the Black Arts Movement. In it, Giovanni writes about the intersections of love, politics, loneliness and race. Her language is sometimes spare and ...
By the late 1960s, Giovanni emerged as a leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Her debut poetry collections, Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgement (both published in 1968), delivered ...