Nikki Giovanni

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activist children's author essayist person poet professor writer

Nikki Giovanni is a prominent American poet, writer, and activist whose powerful, politically engaged work made her one of the leading voices of the Black Arts Movement.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	activist → children's author → essayist → person → poet → professor → writer →
activePeriod	1960s → 1970s → 1980s → 1990s → 2000s → 2010s → 2020s →
almaMater	Fisk University →
awardReceived	Caldecott Honor → Langston Hughes Medal → NAACP Image Award → National Book Award nomination →
birthName	Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1943-06-07 →
educatedAt	Fisk University →
employer	Virginia Tech →
ethnicGroup	African American →
familyName	Giovanni →
fieldOfWork	African-American literature → civil rights → poetry →
genre	children's literature → essays → poetry →
givenName	Yolande →
influencedBy	Black Arts Movement writers → James Baldwin → Langston Hughes →
language	English →
mainTheme	Black identity → Black pride → family → love → racial justice →
movement	Black Arts Movement → Black Power movement →
name	Nikki Giovanni →
notableWork	Black Feeling, Black Talk → Black Judgement → Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day → Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young People → Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet → Love Poems → My House → Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems → Racism 101 → Re: Creation → Rosa → The Women and The Men → Those Who Ride the Night Winds →
occupation	civil rights activist → poet → university professor → writer →
placeOfBirth	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED →
positionHeld	University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech →
residence	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States →
subjectOf	documentary film "Nikki Giovanni: Reflections" →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing →	contributor
Third World Press →	hasPublished
Nikki Giovanni →	name
Black Arts Movement →	notableFigure