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As soon as she graduated high school her grandmother died

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She has a son and his name is Thomas watson

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Nikki Giovanni began to be known in the late 1960s as one of the strongest voices of the newly emerging Black Arts movement.

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She was a educator

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She was entitled to the black arts movement

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She was entitled to the

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Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather's alma mater, Fisk University. Since 1987,

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Nikki Giovanni was also a educator

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Giovanni’s popularity as a speaker and lecturer increased along with her success as a poet and children’s author

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She was born June 7 1943 in Knoxville Tennessee

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In 1969 Giovanni took a teaching position at Rutgers University.

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She won poetry awards like the American book award

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Her informal style makes her work accessible to both adults and children

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She is 74yrs old

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Nikki Giovanni began to be known in the late 1960s as one of the strongest voices of the newly emerging Black Arts movement.

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She has a son named Thomas

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Nikki Giovanni is American poets who reached prominence during the late 1960s and early 1970s

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Her real name is Yolande cornelia

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She’s from Africa

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She was born in Tennessee

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She also made songs

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She was born June 7,1943

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her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings

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Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr. was her birth name) is also a Civil Rights Activist. She wrote her first poem at a young age. She is also a teacher. She was born June 7, 1943.