25 February 2023 at 03:00
Nikki Giovanni--young, Black, and revolutionary. Note βNo new blog posts were made since Wednesday, February 22 because an ice storm in McHenry County caused a power outage here which was not restored until late Thursday afternoon.Β Sorry for the inconvenience to regular readers. Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee in a closeknit family.Β She was inspiredby her grandmother, a natural storyteller, to explore the use of words.Β After growing up in a middle class Black suburbof Columbus, Ohio, she attended Fisk University in Nashville, one of the most prestigious of the historically Black colleges. At Fisk not only did she find her voice as a poet and writer, but she was immersedin the Civil Rights Movement and the ...