{"id":4897,"date":"2022-02-19T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoodcomstudies.com\/theblueandgrey\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2022-02-19T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:45:24","slug":"nikki-giovanni-to-speak-at-hood-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/19\/nikki-giovanni-to-speak-at-hood-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Giovanni to speak at Hood College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Olivia Todd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World-renowned poet and author Nikki Giovanni will speak at Hood on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Rosenstock Auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considered a significant contributor to the Black Arts Movement, Giovanni has written empowering pieces such as: \u201cEgo-Tripping,\u201d \u201cVOTE,\u201d and \u201cPoem for A Lady Whose Voice I Like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giovanni\u2019s literary works have earned her national accolades like the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award and the Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tickets are free and can be reserved&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/an-evening-with-nikki-giovanni-tickets-253969759387\">here<\/a>. A book signing will follow her talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is sponsored by the Hanson Lecture Series through the Foundation for Enhancing Communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Olivia Todd World-renowned poet and author Nikki Giovanni will speak at Hood on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Rosenstock Auditorium. Considered a significant contributor to the Black Arts Movement, Giovanni has written <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/19\/nikki-giovanni-to-speak-at-hood-college\/\" title=\"Nikki Giovanni to speak at Hood College\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}