A young recap of #poetryafrica2020 thus far
Ready for Day III ✨
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#SafiaElhillo | #KhweziBecker | #NikkiGiovanni | #QuazRoodt
When your dressing room is with Rakim ✊🏾 #Gratitude for the journey Thank You 🙏🏽 @njpac for tonight #represent #Blackthought #Rakim #doitallduprékelly #nikkigiovanni #jessicacaremore #christianMcBride #LastPoets
Nikki Giovanni on Mothers. Delightful! #NikkiGiovanni #Poetry #Mothers Cite Black Women. poetryfoundation.org/poems/48228/mo…
Two great poets in conversation... #relationships #NikkiGiovanni #JamesBaldwin #WorldPoetryDay (full conversation available on YouTube)
This #NikkiGiovanni documentary is beautiful - inspiring to the point of reflection, we get to witness in a visual medium an artist committed to complete freedom over decades. Tremendous work. Now on HBO On Demand and Max.
#ICYMI last night's convo between #NikkiGiovanni (award-winning poet, activist, educator & one of Oprah Winfrey’s “25 Living Legends”) & Tressie McMillan Cottom (prof. & bestselling author shortlisted for the #NationalBookAward ) it is now available on our website: loom.ly/uTFziNM
Happy 80th Birthday #NikkiGiovanni
& all the Black women in heaven
testify & thank God for Nikki the truth-teller, the lover of chocolate & Knoxville & Tupac & jazz
& Black folks
Oh, how she loves us, they sing. Oh, how she shows us love…
—from Heaven by Renée Watson
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou
#WomensHistoryMonth #BlackWriters #NikkiAndMaya #MayaAndNikki #MayaAngelou #NikkiGiovanni #BlackWomen
In celebration of the publication of MAYA’S SONG & A LIBRARY, Nikki Giovanni and I talk about our love of Maya Angelou, our love of poetry & libraries, and being loved by Black women.
Full conversation here: reneewatson.net
#MayasSong #MayaAngelou
#NikkiGiovanni
1. Nikki Giovanni - #nikkigiovanni
2. Talib Kweli @talibkweli
3. Nas - @nas
4. Treach - @treachtribe
5. Mary J. Blige - @therealmaryjblige instagram.com/p/CFFnGENA7es/…
'Just keep the fuck saying it...I'm Wonderful' -Nikki Giovanni #DaughtersOf #GirlTrek GirlTrek #NikkiGiovanni
Exciting! AMI/USA’s The Montessori Experience 2023 #MEx23 sizzles in #Baltimore with #NikkiGiovanni ’s keynote! A Shallal TooDopeTeachers Fanon Hill Greg Carr Barbara Arnwine, Esq. @montwhitley Don Salmon Dr. Susan Zoll See:
amime23.c3groups.com
On Saturday's episode of the Black in Appalachia Podcast, we embrace the current centering of Black Women with an amazing conversation with the illustrious Knoxville native, civil rights icon and poet Nikki Giovanni. Subscribe! #nikkigiovanni #appalachia #virginiatech
#NationalPoetryMonth
#todayspoem
#NikkiGiovanni
'I don't think
I'm allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened'