Nikki Giovanni

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=Nikki Giovanni=

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Giovanni graduated from the Fisk Writers' Workshop and attended graduate school at Colombia in her early 20's. She published two collections of poetry, Black Feeling, Black Talk in 1967 and Black Judgement in 1968, both of which portray strong support of Black identity, and reinforce the growing Black Arts political values that were popular at the time.

In 1970, she published a poetry collection called Re:Creation which further solidified her as an important voice in the Black Arts Movement.

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