Dr. Nikki Giovanni spends time with Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney prior to speaking at Virginia Union University’s 2nd Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research on April 28, 2017, at the Dr. Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center at Virginia Union.
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Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary giant, dies at 81
Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81.
