TRIBUTE TO POET NIKKI GIOVANNI

   Nikki Giovanni - 2010 Celebration of Black Writing (Live In Philly)


    Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki Rosa" (It Is Well) - A T Short #15


    Nikki Giovanni's "Woman Poem" (Amazing Grace) - A T Short #10


    Nikki Giovanni on Hip Hop Speaks to Children


    Nikki Giovanni's "Alabama Poem" (I've Decided to Make Jesus My Choice)

           One of the most widely-read American poets, she prides herself on being "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." Giovanni remains as determined and committed as ever to the fight for civil rights and equality. Always insisting on presenting the truth as she sees it, she has maintained a prominent place as a strong voice of the Black community. Her focus is on the individual, specifically, on the power one has to make a difference in oneself, and thus, in the lives of others.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni (born June 7, 1943)  an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

  
            Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her sister spent their summers with their grandparents in Knoxville, and she graduated with honors from Fisk University, her grandfather's alma mater, in 1968; after graduating from Fisk, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and within the next year published a second book, thus launching her career as a writer. Early in her career she was dubbed the "Princess of Black Poetry," and over the course of more than three decades of publishing and lecturing she has come to be called both a "National Treasure" and, most recently, one of Oprah Winfrey's twenty-five "Living Legends."

    TRIBUTE TO POET NIKKI GIOVANNI


     Nikki Giovanni's "My Tower" (Pretty Little Baby)


    Nikki Giovanni - Ego Tripping -The Truth is on the way LP


    Nikki Giovanni: Bill Cosby


    Nikki Giovanni: Condoleezza Rice


    Nikki Govanni's "Poem for a Lady of Leisure..." (Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone)


    Nikki Giovanni - Talk to Me Poem, I Think I've Got the Blues