Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
On Being with Krista Tippett
English - August 24, 2017 12:52 - 51 minutes - 76.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsRelationships Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality Spirituality arts spirituality society on being krista tippett sociology culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. As a professor at Virginia Tech, she brought beauty and courage by the way of poetry after the shooting there. Today, she is a self-proclaimed space freak and a delighted elder — an adored voice to hip-hop artists and the new forms of social change this generation is creating.