Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni ... and the death of her grandmother. In one of Giovanni’s early poems, “Reflections on April 4, 1968,” marking the day King was assassinated, ...
Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution ... of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., she wrote “Reflections on April 4, 1968,” which begins: “What can I, a poor Black woman, do to destroy ...