Back in 2017, I had the rare opportunity to interview the legendary Dr. Nikki Giovanni here at Salon, where we had a transformative exchange that changed me. On Monday, she passed at 81.
Dr. Pamela Reed still remembers the first day she met Nikki Giovanni. Reed, now a professor and director of the James Arthur Baldwin Afrocologic Institute at Virginia State University, had just joined ...
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An approachable 'giant': VSU professor remembers one of Nikki Giovanni's final appearancesDr. Pamela Reed still remembers the first day she met Nikki Giovanni. Reed, now a professor and director of the James Arthur Baldwin Afrocologic Institute at Virginia State University, had just ...
“Even a Nikki Giovanni or a Dr. Trudier Harris (another Wintergreen participant), icons and flames, need pilot lights. ... Every great writer and culture worker needs a space where they’re ...
The poet Nikki Giovanni at Philharmonic Hall in New York ... the four Black girls in the Birmingham church bombing and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “No one was much interested in a ...
Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a child ... an activist and community leader who was friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke of how Giovanni's ...
(WKRN) — World-renowned poet, civil rights activist and Fisk University alumna Nikki Giovanni ... the self,” said Dr. Holly Hamby, the writing center’s director. Giovanni was a member ...
Dr. Fowler, a fellow faculty member at Virginia Tech. She was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. in Knoxville, Tenn., and was soon called “Nikki” by her older sister. She was 4 when her family ...
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