The Center for Multicultural Student Services, in partnership with Madison Vision Series, will host the MLK 2022 Keynote Speaker Dr. Nikki Giovanni, on Monday, January 17, 2022. The program will take place in Wilson Hall at 6pm. If you are interested in going, plan to meet up with Honors students at Hillcrest at 5:30pm. We'll walk over to Wilson Hall and sit together! Wear an Honors shirt and help raise our profile on campus! RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/HONSpr22MLKMeetup
Dr. Nikki Giovanni is one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of the U.S.’s most renowned poets world-wide. Her poem, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city. Dr. Giovanni has received numerous awards during her career, including seven Image Awards from the N.A.A.C.P., more than two-dozen honorary degrees, the first Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, the Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry, and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award; additionally, Oprah Winfrey recognized her in 2005 as one of twenty-five “Living Legends.” She continues to teach, write, and publish books, the most recent of which is A Good Cry. Her newest collection, Make Me Rain, was released in October of 2020. Comments are closed.
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