There’s a clip of Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin that keeps popping up on TikTok. The year was 1971. It was a little more than three years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Richard M. Nixon was president and nowhere close to resign
Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race, politics, gender, sex and love, died on Monday in Blacksburgpaldobet, Va. She was 81. Her death