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Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Amiri Baraka 9780913441619 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of poems.
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories William Henry Lewis 9780060536664 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins In twelve graceful, sensual stories, William Henry Lewis traces the line between the real ...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door Thumper Book Review I am the first in line when it comes to being bored by, frustrated with, and thoroughly sick of current popular African-American fiction that highl...
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Marcus Reeves 9780571211401 Nonfiction Faber and Faber Faber and Faber For many African Americans of a certain demogra...
Love Poems
Love Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688149895 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America’s most ...
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir Ashley C. Ford 9781250305978 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about ...
No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy
No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy Charles Gordone 9780573613081 Fiction Bobbs-Merrill Bobbs-Merrill ”Charles Gordone’s 1969 play No Place to be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy, received the...
Halle Berry - Perfect Stranger Interview
Halle Berry - Perfect Stranger Interview Kam Williams Interview Halle Berry Halle Berry is no stranger to the psychological thriller, having once played a shrink-turned-amnesiac mental pati...
Whore the Wind Blew My Way
Whore the Wind Blew My Way T. Styles 9781945240164 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications After committing a violent crime, Louise Smart, a career whore, desires one thing above all, to escap...
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon Yona Harvey 9780615954202 Poetry Svaha Paradox Paradox Publishing This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contributors o...
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951365 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelb...
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse Langston Hughes 9780679728184 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Langston Hughes electrified readers and...
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
All Souls: Essential Poems
All Souls: Essential Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807162002 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of histor...
Poems in the Attic
Poems in the Attic Nikki Grimes 9781620140277 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books During a visit to her grandma s house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mo...
The 100 Best African American Poems
The 100 Best African American Poems Nikki Giovanni 9781402221118 Poetry Sourcebooks MediaFusion Sourcebooks Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nik...
Our Kind of People
Our Kind of People Paige Turner Book Review A comedian joked that ethnic groups need an elite "Royal Family" to look up to. He mentioned that most WASPS identify with the British Royal fami...
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life George Nesbitt 9780226783123 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press An immersive multigeneration...
When the Wanderers Come Home
When the Wanderers Come Home Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 9780803288577 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contribut...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America D. Watkins 9781510703353 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Be...
America, My Love, America, My Heart
America, My Love, America, My Heart Daria Peoples 9780062993298 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answe...
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings Salaam Green 9798990220874 Poetry Pulley Press Clyde Hill Publishing “The Other Revival is about restoring what history has overlooked. In a time when public memory i...
Pressure Makes Diamonds
Pressure Makes Diamonds Valerie Graves 9781617754937 Nonfiction Open Lens Akashic Books “Pressure Makes Diamonds is an important and timely book that brilliantly details Valerie Graves’s pioneering ...
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great Camille T. Dungy 9780892553488 Poetry Persea Books Persea Books An astounding comp...
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings Ted Joans 9781894800006 Poetry Ekstasis Editions Ekstasis Editions Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the...
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780679764083 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar—. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, ...
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011 Barbara Chase-Riboud 9781609805944 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The long breath of Barbara Chase-Ribo...
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers Kwame Alexander 9781499364781 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC From Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medalist, a collection of poetry for young people. STA...
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780064430975 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An ALA Notable Children’s Book, Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems includes sixteen poems that tell ...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...
Hugo
Hugo Atinuke 9781536212754 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press What happens when a pigeon who looks after all the visitors in the park finds himself in need? Help comes from a surprising source ...
Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
Somebody Pick Up My Pieces J.D. Mason 9780312368876 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Six months ago her three daughters walked out and left Charlotte Rodgers to fend for herself. Charlo...
Somebody’s Sinning In My Bed
Somebody’s Sinning In My Bed Pat G’Orge Walker 9780758235404 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Pat G’Orge-Walker delivers a wickedly funny, uplifting novel of love and betrayal … good karma a...
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman Louise Borden 9780689864629 Nonfiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school — not in the cotton fields of T...
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel Francis Ray 9780312307349 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy f...
Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie: A Book about Secrets
Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie: A Book about Secrets Mari Evans 9780940975811 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Corinne has changed, and Annie, her best friend, is alarmed. Corinne h...
Somebody Else’s Child
Somebody Else’s Child Terris McMahan Grimes 9780451186720 Fiction Onyx Onyx Learning about a murder and kidnapping in her elderly mother’s hometown, amateur sleuth Theresa Galloway is forced to agree...
Somebody’s Calling My Name
Somebody’s Calling My Name Wyatt Tee Walker 9780817009809 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press Traces the musical expressions of the black religious tradition from its ancestral roots to its influence...
Selected Poems American Classics Edition
Selected Poems American Classics Edition Gwendolyn Brooks 9780063484238 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins “When Miss Brooks… writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of ...
A Book of Poems for Black Kings
A Book of Poems for Black Kings Fulterius King 9798991482202 Poetry Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing A Book of Poems for Black Kings is a profound and empowering anthology that speaks dir...
All the Names Given: Poems
All the Names Given: Poems Raymond Antrobus 9781951142926 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigatio...
Felon: Poems
Felon: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9780393652147 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a...
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink Kevin Young 9781608195510 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street ven...
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...
Return of the Kings
Return of the Kings Laini Mataka 9781574782295 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Return of the Kings continues Mataka’s unapologetic elevation of Black people’s lives and struggles, using...
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe Tony Rose 9781937269487 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications Group FROM THE INTRODUCTION - AN INVESTI...
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374604851 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Priz...
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery Cynthia Grady 9780802853868 Nonfiction William B. Eerdmans Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company This powerful collection of poems chronicles the various...
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819567390 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819512116 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 199...
Mixturao and Other Poems (English and Spanish Edition)
Mixturao and Other Poems (English and Spanish Edition) Tato Laviera 9781558855243 Poetry Arte Público Press Arte Público Press In the title poem of Tato Laviera’s fifth poetry collection...
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780060562861 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Celebrate the love of brothers and sisters everywhere with award-winning author Eloise Greenfield in t...
Darling: New & Selected Poems
Darling: New & Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these thing...
Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Dark Testament: And Other Poems Pauli Murray 9781631494833 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in...
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems Tony Medina 9781933491943 Poetry Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, ma...
America, a Love Story
America, a Love Story Camille T. Dungy 9780819502261 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’...
American Sublime: Poems
American Sublime: Poems Elizabeth Alexander 9781555974329 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of ...
Solving The Race Issue In America
Solving The Race Issue In America H. J. Harris 9781890199074 Nonfiction New Paradigm Publishing New Paradigm Publishing The Top 7 Areas to Be Examined in Solving the Race Issue in America Paradigm Pub...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson
"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson Melvin Tolson 9780813918655 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recogni...
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka 9781324097501 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems, Adr...
Knucklehead: Poems
Knucklehead: Poems Tony Keith Jr. 9780063296053 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins dear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skin are thick enough to ...
Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen 9781399523608 Fiction Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen is one o...
Journey: Poems
Journey: Poems Wade Hudson 9780883784174 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Journey is a collection of poems that offers a reflective look at various periods and experiences of Wade Hudson’s l...
Roll Deep: Poems
Roll Deep: Poems Major Jackson 9780393353624 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit ...
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems Gabriel Okara 9780803286870 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decade...
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller 9780996139021 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books “The volume itself and the poems chosen for its publication ...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Book Of Hours: Poems
Book Of Hours: Poems Kevin Young 9780307272249 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my ...
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems Alice Walker 9781608681884 Poetry New World Library New World Library Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can st...
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson 9780807147344 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries...
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa Kadija Sesay 9781905233014 Poetry Flipped Eye Publishing Flipped Eye Publishing The anthology, Dance the Guns to Silence celebrates the life, str...
Blues Poems
Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Boston Weatherford 9780399237263 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine o...
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 9780393319729 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country’s most influential poe...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines Troy Johnson Article SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES (January - June 2000) Poetry BlackWords Poetry Chapbook Series Please submit two hard-copy versions of five (5) of your mos...
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines Loading SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES (January - June 2000) Poetry BlackWords Poetry Chapbook Series Please submit two hard-copy versions of five (5) of your most represen...
Ghost: Running for His Life or From It?
Ghost: Running for His Life or From It? Jason Reynolds 9781481450157 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. His new book Ghost is the start of a series for kids about an inner c...
Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Agm Collection)
Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Agm Collection) Aimé Césaire 9780810128965 Poetry Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas’s new tra...
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry Catherine Clinton 9780544582569 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Powerful and diverse, this unique collection of African American...
Stay Human: Mindfulness Poems
Stay Human: Mindfulness Poems Mahogany L. Browne 9798888909782 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Stay Human is a collection of mindfulness poems celebrating everyday moments from acclaimed, award...
We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems
We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems Cheryl Boyce-Taylor 9780810144231 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered ...
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644450673 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith ...
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton 9781950774159 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and ...
How To Carry Water: Selected Poems
How To Carry Water: Selected Poems Lucille Clifton 9781950774142 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works ...
If God Invented Baseball: Poems
If God Invented Baseball: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951006 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Here are poems that celebrate and interpret the game by one of America’s finest poets. They a...
Love Poems
Love Poems Latorial Faison 9781495400810 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC No matter how you’re celebrating love, don’t do it without LOVE POEMS by Latorial Faison Latorial Faison is one of ...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and b...
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems Alice Walker 9780812971057 Poetry Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection ...
Complete Poems
Complete Poems Claude McKay 9780252028823 Poetry University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred published here for the f...
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) Audre Lorde 9780393312379 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Ric...
(V.)
(V.) Anastacia-Reneé 9781939568342 Poetry Black Ocean Black Ocean In 1974, when Ntozake Shange first released the cannon of Black girl magic known as For colored girls who have considered suicide / ...
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni 0000000114678830 Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 to December 9, 2024 was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni (June 7, 1943 &n...