Dec 16, 2024 · The great Nikki Giovanni—a widely acclaimed Black poet-author who loved Milwaukee—passed away on Dec. 9 of lung cancer, in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Widely known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” this true literary …

Jan 15, 2023 · Rising to fame during the Black arts movement of the 1960s, poet Nikki Giovanni is one of the most well-known Black poets. Giovanni has won several awards and was even nominated for a Grammy...

Jun 9, 2022 · Considered the “Poet of the Black Revolution” for her leading role in the Black Arts Movement which stemmed from the powerful era of the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement, Giovanni...

Dec 10, 2024 · Giovanni and her son, Thomas, at a soul picnic the Rev. Jesse Jackson organized in 1972 to raise funds for his new political organization. In 1973 Giovanni attended the Phillis Wheatley...

Giovanni’s historic collaboration with saxophonist-composer and former Jazz Messenger Javon Jackson has yielded The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni, released on his Solid Jackson label.

Mar 18, 2025 · Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” released just before Nikki Giovanni’s death in December of 2024.

Nov 5, 2024 · Two years later, Jackson has rekindled his chemistry in the studio with Giovanni, who is the first person to receive the Rosa L. Parks Women of Courage Award, a Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2017 and one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends.”

Giovanni’s historic collaboration with saxophonist-composer and former Jazz Messenger Javon Jackson has yielded The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni, available February 18, 2022 on his Solid Jackson label.

Jan 8, 2024 · “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA) profiles a poet, storyteller and activist who has been in the public eye for more than half a century.

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