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Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.) is an American activist and poet. She was a prominent member of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and has published poem anthologies, essay collections, and children’s books.

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Poet Nikki Giovanni On The Darker Side Of Her Life

Nikki Giovanni is one of the most celebrated living poets, known for beautiful descriptions of family, friends, politics and even food. Host Michel Martin talks with Giovanni about her "truth telling" and some of the surprises in her latest collection, Chasing Utopia.

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Michel Martin
2013
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Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate

“The door is open,” Nikki Giovanni told the interviewer, “and if I’m saying something that you don’t like, you can go out the door. Because I’m going to say what I think I should say.”

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David Marchese
2021
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Nikki Giovanni: ‘Martin Had Faith in the People’

The day after King’s death, the writer-activist wrote a poem about what his loss meant to a movement. Fifty years later, she discusses how his model of leadership lives on.

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Emily Lordi
2018
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Nikki Giovanni, Finding the Song in the Darkest Days

Part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, part of a Biden campaign ad in 2020, she has never stopped writing.

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Elizabeth A. Harris
2020
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Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry

From Make Me Rain, a Collection of Poetry and Prose.

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Nikki Giovanni
2020
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