Nikki Giovanni, a groundbreaking poet, author, and professor, died at 81 from complications from lung cancer, leaving behind her son and granddaughter, after a career that embodied the spirit of the Black Arts Movement and celebrated Blackness, womanhood, and the art of dreaming.
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