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Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrate Their 150th Anniversary
The HBCU’s Grammy award-winning group celebrates milestone with Nikki Giovanni as the commencement’s keynote speaker.
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‘The Point Is You Have a Voice’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Talks Poetry, Prose and Politics With Nikki Giovanni
The literary icon joined us at a pivotal moment in American politics for a candid discussion about the intersection of art, activism and authenticity.
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PageTurners: Traversing the Literary Worlds Holding Us Down
You know that feeling when you pick up a book for the first time and think, “yeah, I’m going to read this in all of two seconds” because of how quickly the storyline sucks you in? Well, the books released in just the first week of March will reel you in faster than you can…
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'We Write to Tell the Truth': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Talks the Poetic Justice of 2020 With Nikki Giovanni
Of all the adjectives we’d use to describe 2020, “good” wouldn’t exactly top the list. But as this most eventful year comes to a close, hosting literary icon and activist Nikki Giovanni on our new podcast, The Root Presents: It’s Lit! will undoubtedly be one of its high points. Ironically, to hear the legendary poet…
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The Unsinkable Nikki Giovanni Reflects on a Life of Tears and Laughter in New Collection
You don’t have to wonder where Nikki Giovanni is on a Saturday night. The iconic poet, who just released her latest collection of poems last week, is a devout Saturday Night Live fan and is especially impressed by Alec Baldwin and his Donald Trump impersonations. “He has Trump nailed as the fool that he is,”…
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Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She’d Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt
The documentary The Amazing Nina Simone, by filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman, provides an intimate look at the life of singer Nina Simone, who combined art with activism. Often called the voice of the civil rights movement, Simone made songs, including “Mississippi Goddam,” that spoke to the turbulence of the time and the brutal fight for civil…