How Music and Art Have Helped Black Americans Weather Troubling Times
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more sleepin’ ...
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Poet and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 following third cancer diagnosis
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 ...
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Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
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 ...
Column: Remembering Nikki Giovanni, a revolutionary spirit of love
Poet, activist and former Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni showed us that poetry could be a path to liberation. Now, it ...
13 essential works by Knoxville's Nikki Giovanni, from poems to an autobiography
Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the ...
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More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...
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Nikki Giovanni, Poet and Leading Figure of Black Arts Movement, Dies at 81
activist and leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has died. The author died on Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Va., following her third cancer diagnosis, per a statement from her friend, author Renée ...
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Nikki Giovanni, Poet and Leading Figure of Black Arts Movement, Dies at 81
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 ...
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Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
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 ...