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Poet, retired Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni dies

Biden offers statement on Virginia Tech's Nikki Giovanni

"Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter Kai—and all those who loved and admired that something special, her courage."

Virginia Tech community mourns Nikki Giovanni

Pender was one of the many people on Virginia Tech’s campus mourning the loss of Nikki Giovanni. She died Monday at the age of 81, after battling cancer. Pender got to know Giovanni not just as a literary star, but as a person.

Virginia Tech professor, poet, literary celebrity, Nikki Giovanni has died at 81

Known for teaching at Virginia Tech for over 30 years, Giovanni passed away with her lifelong partner by her side, according to her friend Renee Watson.

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Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life

I n the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars ...

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Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet and queer Black icon, has died at 81

Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet and Black queer icon, has died at age 81. Giovanni died Monday in a hospital in Blacksburg, ...

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