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Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet, activist, book author, and educatorknown for her thoughtful work on race and gender, died at age 81 on Monday, Dec. 9 in a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. The cause was complications from lung cancer, a disease with which she was originally diagnosed in 1995. “The …

Meshell Ndegeocello, like many people, would rather not turn on her camera during Zoom calls. “I want to hear you,” she says. “I enjoy my hearing apparatus. The eyes will fool you.” It’s for this reason that, during a recent conversation from her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Ndegeocello’s only …