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Marvin Gaye’s classic 1971 record What’s Going On turns 50 this month, which means more people than ever will have occasion to note how timely it is. “He could have written What’s Going On yesterday,” poet Nikki Giovanni noted in an interview last autumn, explaining that the cover portrait of her 2020 collection, Make Me Rain, pays homage to Gaye’s album cover, picturing Giovanni in a raincoat, her collar upturned. The record’s endurance – most...

Since her breakthrough role in 2001’s Baby Boy, Henson has delivered unforgettable performances on both the small and big screen from Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to Cookie in Empire proving her diversity as an actress. In 2018, the multi-hyphenate founded a nonprofit organization, the Boris L. Henson Foundation, to help eradicate the stigma around mental health in underserved communities and in 2020 Henson launched TPH Hair, a product line for all hair textures. KWAKU ALSTON Stacey Abrams – Spelman College This author, lawyer and politician is m...

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is Back, Featuring Nikki Giovanni and Bobby Rush January 20, 2021 1106 The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford’s award-winning music and literature show will open its spring season this weekend with two legends: celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni and veteran bluesman, Bobby Rush. Also featured will be Colorado singer-songwriter, Xanthe Alexis. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band, the Yalobushwhackers. The broadcast can be heard this Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. on WUMS (92.1 FM in Oxford) and online: https://myrebelradio.com/. The show can also be h...

(Credit: Giovanni) Dontaira Terrell: What are your thoughts about the Trump administration alluding to voter fraud and creating a false narrative around the election results?  Nikki Giovanni: I’m surprised, and any sane person has to be a little surprised he has tried to carry this on for so long. Everybody knows [Joe]Biden is the President-elect. He has won the election. If there’s voter fraud, the fraud is the vote for [President Donald] Trump and the people who fraudulently got him elected in 2016. They were trying to do the same thing now, but they were outplayed. DT: What were y...

Nikki Giovanni, finding the song in the darkest days Nikki Giovanni, an author and poet, in Christiansburg, Va., Dec. 11, 2020. Part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, part of a Biden campaign ad in 2020, she has never stopped writing. Shaban Athuman/The New York Times. by Elizabeth A. Harris (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Over the course of her 52-year career, Nikki Giovanni has written 12 children’s books and eight nonfiction books, and she has released 10 spoken word albums. But the genre for which she is best known is poetry. When you flip through a stack of her 19 collections (it’s a tall...