NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio . She and her sister spent their summers with their grandparents in Knoxville, and she graduated with honors from Fisk ... The Jeanine Rae Award for the Advancement of Women's Culture, National Women's Music Festival . 1996, 1996 Tennessee Governor's Award In the Humanities. The Tennessee Humanities Council. Honorary Citizenship, City of Baltimore. ...

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Notable Women in Black History -- Yolande Cornelia "Nikki ...