Post by Simone Anthony-Brown

#BlackHistory365 - NIKKI GIOVANNI, Born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr., June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Giovanni is a prominent poet and writer who first caught the public’s attention as part of the Black Arts movement of the late 1960s. After graduating with honors from Fisk University in 1967, she returned to Cincinnati and established the city's first Black Arts Festival. Giovanni also began self-published her first book, Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968). By the mid-1970s, Giovanni had established herself as one of the leading poetic voices. She won the Woman of the Year award from Ladies Home Journal in 1973. During the 1980s, she toured, attended speaking engagements and taught at colleges and universities as a professor. Some of her works include for children, Jimmy Grasshopper Versus the Ants (2007) and Rosa (2005), a picture book about Rosa Parks, a poem Acolytes (2007) and On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History through the Spirituals (2007). Source: https://lnkd.in/ekkWBHt #blackhistorymonth #blackhistoryishistory #blackhistoryiseveryday #blackhistorymatters #blackhistoryfacts #blackhistory2020 #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #blackhistorymoment