S E384: Nikki Giovanni: "Black and Men and Women Need to Remember Who We Are!"

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The legendary Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator discusses everything from the current racial climate to the relationship between Black men and Black women to her "living" with cancer for a decade. She also reads from her latest work, Make Me Rain.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:10.0	I believe that we stand on the shoulders of greatness.
0:13.2	I believe that any of us doing anything, anywhere,
0:16.1	we're only able to do these things because somebody came before us
0:19.3	to lay the foundation.
0:20.8	And in many ways, when I think about this woman whose name was codified when
0:24.6	Tina Marie says, you know, she's listing off a group of people who are dynamic and Nicki Giovanni
0:30.4	just to name a few. She's here, she's got a new collection of poetry,
0:34.6	but I am so excited to hear about what she thinks
0:37.1	about this period of time in history,
0:39.5	because she's lived through a lot.
0:40.9	Let me welcome to the Karen Hunter Show.
0:42.3	Back to the Karen Hunter show, Nicki Giovanni. Welcome.
0:46.0	Oh thank you professor. I'm glad to be here.
0:50.0	Professor back at you. All right, so I've said that they're going to circle this
0:56.3	period not just because of the pandemic in history a hundred years from now they're
1:00.8	going to be studying what is happening right now. You've lived
1:05.0	through iterations of movements. How would you categorize where we are in terms of
1:12.3	this country globally in history.
1:17.4	Well, I was saying to my students this morning,
1:20.9	I'm still teaching.
1:22.2	One, there's always tomorrow tomorrow so we have to look
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