Nikki Giovanni: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Dec 05, 2025
Anniversary information added. Jun 03, 2025
Added more biographical information and mentioned the Black Arts movement, the 2023 documentary about her, and the bat species named for her. Dec 11, 2024
Updated with her death. Dec 10, 2024
Revised the opening paragraph. Dec 10, 2024
Modified link of Web site: AllMusic - Nikki Giovanni. Sep 17, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Jan 23, 2024
Link added. Feb 10, 2023
Added the book Make Me Rain. Feb 22, 2022
Article revised and updated. Apr 12, 2019
Add new Web site: Reading Rockets - A video interview with Nikki Giovanni. Feb 27, 2017
Add new Web site: The History Makers - Biography of Nikki Giovanni. Feb 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture - Biography of Yolande Cornelia Giovanni. Oct 24, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Nikki Giovanni. Feb 20, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Nikki Giovanni. Feb 20, 2014
Add new Web site: Children's Literature Network - Biography of Nikki Giovanni. Aug 05, 2013
Added new Web site: AfroPoets.Net - Famous Black Writers - Biography of Nikki Giovanni. Oct 10, 2008
Added new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Nikki Giovanni. Jan 14, 2007
Added new Web site: The Official Site of Nikki Giovanni. Aug 03, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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