Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin conversation

[Dr. Narcisse]

@3Rivers

 

[get these nets]

saw this on youtube a few days ago......great convo

NG was beautiful

 

[get these nets]

cued up to the part of the conversation about Black man-Black woman relationships and Black family dynamic.......................EXCELLENT discussion

 

[Kwabena]

Dapped and repped. I'm familiar with James Baldwin. Will do my Googles on Nikki Giovanni

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I love Nikki G. Her role in black thought, literature, and poetry is often overlooked as Maya Angelou seemed to get all the shines, but she’s so unapologetically black, I love it.

 

[ThatTruth777]

I listened to the clip but I'm not really understanding the "schooling" part

 

[DPresidential]

Subs. I need to fully see this.

 

[Cat piss martini]

powerful.

 

[Monoblock]

Very good video. Nikki was always on point. Video is damn near 50 years old and still relevant today.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Dope convo..Way before everybody was fake woke
Nikki was so naturally beautiful

 

[southern.girl]

I've been seeing this video on my YT recommendations but I haven't checked it out yet. Sounds like I need to.

 

[1LurkerChick9]

cued up to the part of the conversation about Black man-Black woman relationships and Black family dynamic.......................EXCELLENT discussion

Best thing I've watched in 2019 so far.
Just FYI for those considering watching : the entire video is not actually about romantic relationships , they also discuss being black writers, the movements of the day, the drug epidemic, their favorite writers,etc.The age gap definitely brought something interesting to the conversation.

I felt like the relationship convo showed it's age, but it was still a valuable watch to better understand the black male experience(as a black woman).

 

[get these nets]

I love Nikki G. Her role in black thought, literature, and poetry is often overlooked as Maya Angelou seemed to get all the shines, but she’s so unapologetically black, I love it.

FACT.
It's like what they say in the Highlander film series

I think Aretha Franklin cast as big a shadow over her contemporaries too.

 

[get these nets]

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni’s Extraordinary Forgotten Conversation About the Language of Love and What It Takes to Be Truly Empowered
“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.”
By Maria Popova


In November of 1971, fifteen months after his remarkable conversation with Margaret Mead about race and identity, James Baldwin (August 2, 1924–December 1, 1987) sat down with another extraordinary woman, the poet Nikki Giovanni (b. June 7, 1943), for another conversation of astonishing timeliness today. The event was hosted by the PBS television series SOUL! and took place in London. Baldwin was forty-six and Giovanni only twenty-eight. For hours of absolute presence, intellectual communion, and occasional respectful rebuttal, they explored justice, freedom, morality, and what it means to be an empowered human being. The transcript was eventually published as A Dialogue (public library

 

[3Rivers]

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