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.
Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet and queer Black icon, has died at 81
Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet and Black queer icon, has died at age 81. Giovanni died Monday in a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, told The New York Times. The cause was complications of lung cancer.
Nikki Giovanni spoke words and wrote them. The poet, civil rights pioneer, author, educator and activist died on Monday. Giovanni, who was regarded as a revolutionary writer and “The Princess of Black ...
Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the particular strengths and joys of being a woman. She insisted that her ...
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