By Kovie Biakolo ·Updated January 20, 2023
In the opening scenes of Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s documentary on the revolutionary poet Nikki Giovanni, the subject of the doc reminds us in a scene taken from her 2019 conversation with American anthropologist Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole at the Apollo Theater that she is “polite but not friendly.” Perhaps there is no better characterization of the poet who throughout
