Nikki Giovanni
![Giovanni speaking at [[Emory University]] in 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Nikki_Giovanni_speaking_at_Emory_University_2008.jpg)
Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution". During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom Ltd, to provide an outlet for other African-American women writers. Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip hop. Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee" and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections.
Giovanni has received numerous awards and holds 27 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities. She has also been given the key to over two dozen cities. Giovanni has been honored with the NAACP Image Award seven times. One of her more unique honors was having a South America bat species, ''Micronycteris giovanniae'', named after her in 2007.
Giovanni is proud of her Appalachian roots and works to change the way the world views Appalachians and Affrilachians.
Giovanni has taught at Queens College, Rutgers, and Ohio State, and was a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech until September 1, 2022. After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, she delivered a chant-poem at a memorial for the shooting victims. Provided by Wikipedia
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201by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Giovanni, Nikki, Giovanni, Nikki, Giovanni, NikkiOther Authors: “...Giovanni, Nikki...”
Published 1973
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209by Giovanni, Nikki, Dropkin, Celia, Evans, Marie E, Giovanni, Nikki, Margolin, Anna, Rich, Adrienne, Trustman, Deborah, Weisgall, Hugo 1912-1997
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210by Giovanni, Nikki, Dropkin, Celia, Evans, Marie E., Giovanni, Nikki, Margolin, Anna, Rich, Adrienne, Trustman, Deborah, Weisgall, Hugo, 1912-1997
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212by Addison, Linda D., 1952-, Broaddus, Maurice, Chambers, Christopher, David, Milton J., Due, Tananarive, 1966-, Giovanni, Nikki, Holland, Jesse J., James, Harlan, Jerry, Danian Darrell, M., Kyoko, McKinney, L. L (Leatrice L.), Oh, Temi, Okungbowa, Suyi Davies, Parris, Glenn, Simmons, Alex, Thomas, Sharee Renée, Turnbull, Cadwell, 1987-, Wiggins, Troy L.
Published 2021
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213by Chapman, Abraham, Chapman, Abraham, Chapman, Abraham, Chapman, Abraham, Chapman, Abraham, Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998, Ellison, Ralph, Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019, Giovanni, Nikki, Hare, Nathan, Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980, Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984, Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987, Reed, Ishmael, 1938-, Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998, X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Published 1972
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214I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries Of African American Poetry (Edited By C. Clinton) (Unabridged)by I, Too, Sing America, Angelou, Maya, Baraka, Amiri, Bennett, Gwendolyn, Bontemps, Arna, Brooks, Gwendolyn, Cullen, Countee, Dove, Rita Frances, Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, Dunbar, Paul Laurence, Giovanni, Nikki, Grimke, Angelina Weld, Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, Horton, George Moses, Hughes, Langston, Johnson, Fenton, Johnson, Georgia Douglas, Johnson, James Weldon, Lorde, Audre, McKay, Claude, Terry, Lucy, Toomer, Jean, Walker, Alice, Walker, Margaret, Wheatley, Phillis, Whitfield, James M
Published 2015
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220by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967Other Authors: “...Giovanni, Nikki...”
Published 2004
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