NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81. Giovanni, subject of the prize-winning 2023 documentary “Going to Mars,” died Monday with her lifelong partner, Virginia “Ginney” Fowler, by her side, according to a statement from friend and author Renée Watson. “We will forever feel blessed to have shared a legacy and love with our dear cousin,” said Allison (Pat) Ragan, Giovanni’s cousin, in a statement on behalf of the family. The author of more than 25 books, Giovanni was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know well from her work, readings and other live appearances and her years on the faculty of Virginia Tech, among other schools. Poetry collections such as “Black Judgement” and “Black Feeling Black Talk” sold thousands of copies, led to invitations from “The Tonight Show” and other television programs and made her popular enough to fill a 3,000-seat concert hall at Lincoln Center for a celebration of her 30th birthday. In poetry, prose and the spoken word, she told her story. She looked back on her childhood in Tennessee and Ohio, championed the Black Power movement, addressed her battles with lung cancer, paid tribute to heroes from Nina Simone to Angela Davis and reflected on such personal passions as food, romance, family and rocketing into space — a journey she believed Black women uniquely qualified for, if only because of how much they had already survived. She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, “Night Comes Softly,” and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker among others. For a time, she was called “The Princess of Black Poetry.” “All I know is that she is the most cowardly, bravest, least understanding, most sensitive, slowest to anger, most quixotic, lyingest, most honest woman I know,” her friend Barbara Crosby wrote in the introduction to “The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni,” an anthology of nonfiction prose published in 2003. “To love her is to love contradiction and conflict. To know her is to never understand but to be sure that all is life.” Giovanni’s admirers ranged from James Baldwin to Teena Marie, who name-checked her on the dance hit “Square Biz,” to Oprah Winfrey, who invited the poet to her “Living Legends” summit in 2005, when other guests of honor included Rosa Parks and Toni Morrison. Giovanni was a National Book Award finalist in 1973 for a prose work about her life, “Gemini.” She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” In January 2009, at the request of NPR, she wrote a poem about the incoming president, Barack Obama: “I’ll walk the streets And knock on doors Share with the folks: Not my dreams but yours I’ll talk with the people I’ll listen and learn I’ll make the butter Then clean the churn” ____ Giovanni had a son, Thomas Watson Giovanni, in 1969. She never married the father, because, she told Ebony magazine, “I didn’t want to get married, and I could afford not to get married.” Over the latter part of her life she lived with her partner, Fowler, a fellow faculty member at Virginia Tech. She was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was soon called “Nikki” by her older sister. She was 4 when her family moved to Ohio and eventually settled in the Black community of Lincoln Heights, outside Cincinnati. She would travel often between Tennessee and Ohio, bound to her parents and to her maternal grandparents in her “spiritual home” in Knoxville. As a girl, she read everything from history books to Ayn Rand and was accepted to Fisk University, the historically Black school in Nashville, after her junior year of high school. College was a time for achievement, and for trouble. Her grades were strong, she edited the Fisk literary magazine and helped start the campus branch of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. But she rebelled against school curfews and other rules and was kicked out for a time because her “attitudes did not fit those of a Fisk woman,” she later wrote. After the school changed the dean of women, Giovanni returned and graduated with honors in history in 1967. Giovanni relied on support from friends to publish her debut collection, “Black Poetry Black Talk,” which came out in 1968, and in the same year she self-published “Black Judgement.” The radical Black Arts Movement was at its height and early Giovanni poems such as “A Short Essay of Affirmation Explaining Why,” “Of Liberation” and “A Litany for Peppe” were militant calls to overthrow white power. (“The worst junkie or black businessman is more humane/than the best honkie”). “I have been considered a writer who writes from rage and it confuses me. What else do writers write from?” she wrote in a biographical sketch for Contemporary Writers. “A poem has to say something. It has to make some sort of sense; be lyrical; to the point; and still able to be read by whatever reader is kind enough to pick up the book.” Her opposition to the political system moderated over time, although she never stopped advocating for change and self-empowerment, or remembering martyrs of the past. In 2020, she was featured in an ad for presidential candidate Joe Biden, in which she urged young people to “vote because someone died for you to have the right to vote.” Her best-known work came early in her career; the 1968 poem “Nikki-Rosa.” It was a declaration of her right to define herself, a warning to others (including obituary writers) against telling her story and a brief meditation on her poverty as a girl and the blessings, from holiday gatherings to bathing in “one of those big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in,” which transcended it. “and I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy”
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ALLEN PARK — The Detroit Lions made a move on Tuesday that would have seemed incomprehensible just two seasons ago. The Lions waived edge rusher James Houston, who had one of the best rookie seasons (2022) for an edge rusher in recent memory but has not returned to that form since. Asked why it didn’t work out in Detroit, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said, “It just didn’t.” “It just didn’t. We had James up for a number of games, came back off of injury, got back, and it just never quite worked out,” Campbell said. Houston, a sixth-round pick by Detroit in 2022, collected eight sacks in seven games during his rookie season and appeared to have a limitless ceiling on what he could become as a pass rusher in the following seasons. But he appeared to fall out of favor with the coaching staff as early as 2023 training camp — Detroit was unsuccessfully trying to turn him into a well-rounded outside linebacker that could play every down — then broke an ankle in Week 2 of that season while playing on special teams. He didn’t return until the NFC Championship game, where he had limited snaps (11) and didn’t make an impact on the stat sheet. In training camp before this season, the Lions continued to try to improve other parts of Houston’s game but eventually gave up on the experiment, allowing him to just focus on rushing the passer. He has 13 pressures and just one sack in 2024, even with there being a clear vacancy on the edge following several key injuries. This time two years ago, Houston was getting called up from the practice squad to make his NFL debut against the Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving Day. Houston dazzled in front of a national television audience , sacking Bills quarterback Josh Allen twice as Detroit took Buffalo to the wire in a 28-25 loss that came on a last-second field goal. Now, before the Lions’ Thanksgiving Day game in 2024, the Lions have decided to move on. Houston hinted at the potential parting with a cryptic social media post on Monday night. He posted on X (formerly Twitter), “Live... Learn.. Move on” with a peace sign emoji. “Look, wish him the best of luck, and sometimes you just need a fresh start and this could be great for him, so, wish him the best,” Campbell said. Houston, 26, is just the third Brad Holmes draft pick to no longer be on the active roster or practice squad (Antoine Green, Chase Lucas).Gabriel mimics Gyokeres in cheeky goal celebration in Arsenal win over Sporting in Champions League
By Chad Finn, The Boston Globe Even in retirement, Dale Arnold remains a team player. It is, after all, what hockey people do. After 28 years at NESN — the first 12 as the Bruins’ play-by-play voice, the next 16 as a studio host — Arnold retired in April 2023. He and his wife Susan moved to his native Maine, where he stayed busy writing hockey books (his upcoming fourth, on coaches, is currently in the hands of his publisher), playing plenty of golf, and enjoying the way life should be. “A pretty normal life,’’ he said. When Brian Zechello, the coordinating producer for NESN’s Bruins broadcasts, called him approximately two weeks ago, Arnold figured it had something to do with last Sunday’s Centennial Game celebration of the 100th anniversary of the franchise’s first game. And it did. Just not in the way Arnold anticipated. “My assumption was that for the Centennial Game they were going to bring back all of these different people from across Bruins history, and that they wanted me to show up for that reason,’’ he said. “That’s what I thought it was.” Zechello and NESN did want Arnold back for that game — to host it from the studio, as well as upcoming broadcasts on an interim basis while Arnold’s successor as host, Sophia Jurksztowicz, remains on a personal leave of absence. Adam Pellerin had been handling hosting duties in her absence, but Arnold’s return gives him a breather while also freeing him up for in-game reporter duties, along with Andrew Raycroft. “When Brian asked if I would consider coming back and helping out and hosting the games again, I was shocked, but I said, ‘Yeah, absolutely I’ll help,’ ’’ said Arnold. “It was a pretty quick decision, though after we hung up, I did go talk to my wife and say, ‘I’m going to be away from home a bit here over the next little bit however long this goes.’ ” Arnold has an easy solution to circumventing the complicated logistics of commuting from midcoast Maine to TD Garden, a trip that would take about 2 hours 20 minutes on a good day. “My rule of thumb is: If I have two days off, I come home to Maine,’’ he said. “If I only have one day off, I will stay at one of our two daughters’ houses [one lives in Plymouth, and one in Thompson, Conn.]. I had to make sure they were still OK with Dad showing up on their doorstep from time to time, and they seem to be pretty fired up about it.” Arnold said that when he retired, he never considered the possibility that he might be back in the NESN studios and on air again someday. “As far as I was concerned, in my head, that was it,’’ he said. Arnold is quick to emphasize that he is doing it just until Jurksztowicz, who took her leave just before the start of the regular season, is ready to return. “I’m happy to help out as long as they need me,’’ he said, “and as I said the first segment of the pregame show last Sunday, that spot is Sophia’s. I’m just there to hold it down until she’s ready to come back and then I will gladly yield it back. I’m the placeholder for her.” Arnold said he was more nervous than he expected to be heading into the Centennial Game broadcast, which featured a two-hour pregame show. “I hadn’t done a game in 18 months and I didn’t want to go out there and look like a fool, especially on the occasion of the Centennial Game,’’ he said. “But after the first segment of the pregame was over with I kind of settled down a little bit and the nerves settled down a little bit.” It helped that he was working with analysts and longtime colleagues such as Raycroft, Billy Jaffe, and Barry Pederson — and, of course, given how adept hockey players are at chirping each other, they gave Arnold a good-natured hard time about his return. “Those guys are my best friends,’’ said Arnold. “And we give each other a pretty hard time anyway. But as I told Billy, ‘I’m retired, not expired.’ ” History might be different Tyler Kepner, the superb baseball writer for The Athletic/New York Times, wrote a thought-provoking column this past week on how many legendary moments in baseball history would have been altered, or never happened at all, had commissioner Rob Manfred’s gimmicky “Golden At-Bat” idea been in place. The “Golden At-Bat” would allow a manager to use a different hitter than the expected batter once per game. So, theoretically, Shohei Ohtani could bat twice in a row in a ninth-inning situation, and that sort of thing. Kepner’s piece made me think of all the famous broadcasting calls featuring unlikely heroes — such as Sean McDonough’s on obscure Braves catcher Francisco Cabrera’s winning hit in Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS — that probably never would have happened. And what’s better about baseball than an unlikely hero coming through, and being immortalized by a fantastic call? NFL getting animated On Monday, ESPN/Disney will premiere “The Simpsons Funday Football,” an animated real-time broadcast of the Cowboys-Bengals matchup that will use Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology to Simpsonize a special broadcast available on Disney+ and ESPN+. Drew Carter, who in his non-cartoon form is the Celtics’ play-by-play voice on NBC Sports Boston, will handle the play-by-play for the Simpsons version, the fourth animated alternate telecast he has been a part of for ESPN . . . Congratulations are in order for Cosmina Schulman, senior vice president of strategic broadcast and digital partnerships at NESN, who was named to Cablefax magazine’s 2024 Most Powerful Women list. Schulman was recognized as the Women’s Advancement champion for her work advancing and launching Women of NESN (WON), the network’s initiative dedicated to championing women’s sports coverage, commentary, and storytelling. Get the latest Boston sports news Receive updates on your favorite Boston teams, straight from our newsroom to your inbox. Be civil. Be kind.Synopsys Inc SNPS reported fourth-quarter financial results after the market close on Wednesday. Here’s a rundown of the report . Q4 Revenue: $1.64 billion, versus estimates of $1.63 billion Q4 Adjusted EPS: $3.40, versus estimates of $3.30 “The fourth quarter was a strong finish to a transformational year for Synopsys. We achieved record financial results while doubling down on our strategy with the sale of our Software Integrity business and the pending acquisition of Ansys,” said Sassine Ghazi , president and CEO of Synopsys. “Looking ahead, the AI-driven reinvention of compute is accelerating the pace, scale and complexity of technology R&D, which expands our opportunity to solve engineering challenges from silicon to systems.” Synopsys said its previously announced acquisition of Ansys is expected to close in the first half of 2025. The company is working cooperatively with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to conclude the investigation and the staff’s review of Synopsys’ proposed remedies. Outlook: Synopsys expects first-quarter revenue to be in the range of $1.435 billion to $1.465 billion versus estimates of $1.643 billion, according to Benzinga Pro . The company sees first-quarter adjusted earnings between $2.77 and $2.82 per share versus estimates of $3.53 per share. Synopsys noted that its outlook reflects a change in the company’s fiscal year from a 52/53-week period ending on the Saturday nearest to Oct. 31 of each year to Oct. 31 of each year. As a result of this change, there will be 10 fewer days in the first half of fiscal year 2025. “In 2025, we expect to deliver double-digit revenue growth grounded in pragmatism given continued macro uncertainties and the impact of our fiscal year calendar change,” said Shelagh Glaser , CFO of Synopsys. SNPS Price Action: Synopsys shares were down 6.23% in after-hours, trading at $551.37 at the time of publication Wednesday, per Benzinga Pro . Read Next: ChargePoint Stock Rallies After Q3 Results: EPS In Line, Revenues Beat Photo: Courtesy of Synopsys. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.