What Millennials can learn from the iconic Black queer poet and professor Nikki Giovanni

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It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural traditions are passing away just as the civil rights crisis of our generation rolls in.

Quincy Jones—whom The New York Times called the “giant of American music”—writer, critic, and artist Lorraine O’Grady, poet and professor Nikki Giovanni, HIV activist and public servant A. Cornelius Baker, each felled by time’s infinite reach. 

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For years, Millennials—of which I am one—have been called upon to take up the reins of the struggle, to refashion the movement in

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