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Thanksgiving Travel Latest: Airport strike, staff shortages and weather could impact holiday travelAP Business SummaryBrief at 4:17 p.m. ESTIt's no secret, but Juraj Slafkovsky is not having the start of the season he had hoped for with the Montreal Canadiens. At the end of last season, he showed serious promise that he has what it takes to become a star player in the National Hockey League, but we are still searching for the Slafkovsky of last winter. Personally, I believed that there was a lot of bad luck involved and that his poor start to the season was just a series of unfortunate circumstances (with Patrik Laine's injury, frequent line changes, and the struggles of Kirby Dach/Alex Newhook). However, a sequence from last night's game reveals a much more concerning aspect of Slafkovsky's current performance. I am willing to excuse many things when a player is going through a rough patch, especially a young player, because it happens to 100% of athletes on the planet. What is inexcusable, though, is a lack of effort. As reported earlier this week, Kent Hughes even had to come down, confront Slafkovsky, shake him up, and tell him some hard truths. A troubling sequence involving Juraj Slafkovsky and footage that clearly shows his lack of effort Despite all this, we witnessed the following sequence last night: Poor situational analysis: if he notices that Fowler is ahead of Dach, he (hopefully) backchecks with more intensity to catch up to the defenseman. Stops skating at the blue line. Number 20 can do better. Rest assured, the sequence will be shown to Juraj Slafkovsky by Montreal Canadiens management (if it hasn't already been done), and he will be told that he must do better. It's frustrating because we now know the extent of his talent and potential. It's up to him to find solutions and become a dominant player for the Montreal Canadiens. We believe in him! This article first appeared on Habs Fanatics and was syndicated with permission.None
PHILADELPHIA — Nikki Giovanni, the legendary poet and leader of the Black Arts Movement, died at 81 on Monday, Dec. 9, in Blacksburg, Virginia, after receiving a third diagnosis of cancer, according to news reports . Her longtime partner, Virginia Fowler, was by her side. The revolutionary writer who penned verses about Black life, feminism, politics, rage and love, was born Yolanda Cornelia Giovanni Jr., in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1943 and raised in Cincinnati. She spent many years in New York and Virginia, where she taught English at Virginia Tech for decades. Giovanni had many connections with this region, and notable Philadelphians shared their condolences on social media. Harriet’s Bookshop owner Jeannine A. Cook shared a photo of her cooking with Giovanni on a video call, writing, “May our good deeds add onto yours—thank you for teaching me how to make fried chicken among many other things. Long live the keepers of the word.” Questlove posted a photograph of a young Giovanni with her reading of the popular poem “Ego Tripping” playing in the background; he wrote, “Man: thank you for gifts Nikki Giovanni.” Early in her career, Giovanni spent time in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. As she developed her first book, the self-published poetry collection "Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement" (1971), Giovanni worked at a People’s Settlement House in Delaware. Around that time, she studied at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work, pursuing a master’s of social work, and commuted into the city from Wilmington. She dropped out of the program and moved to New York, going on to become a prolific writer, outspoken activist, lesbian icon, and beloved English teacher. Giovanni returned to Philadelphia briefly in the 1990s, when she recorded her 1997 poetry album "In Philadelphia" at the historic Sigma Sound studio. She also served as the 1996 artist-in-residence at the famed Clef Club. Renowned for her disarming humor and incisive commentary across dozens of books, Giovanni appeared at literary events in Philadelphia throughout her career and found a deep and loving fandom of all ages. In 2010, North Philadelphia’s Art Sanctuary named her the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. One of her last trips to the city was captured in the Emmy-winning documentary "Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project" that screened at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival (and is now streaming on Max). Speaking about her 2017 book, "A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter," Giovanni had a room full of teens laughing at the Free Library of Philadelphia and heard from several attendees, particularly Black women, who said she was their biggest inspiration. Some had named their children for her. “Philadelphia was the birthplace of the United States,” Giovanni told the Inquirer in a Zoom interview last year . “Having the documentary about me in Philadelphia is also saying that there is still a new world, there’s still something to create, still another step, or as the old spirituals used to say, we are climbing Jacob’s ladder.” During our interview, she introduced me to her loud Yorkie, Cleopatra, and showed off the “Thug life” tattoo that she got on her arm in honor of Tupac Shakur. In her later years, the poet was fascinated by space exploration (inspiring the documentary title). She called herself a “space freak” and told me about her wish for artists to be sent to the moon. She was also curious to learn more about potential new discoveries of alien life, which she welcomed. “If another life-form is coming to Earth, they can drop by my house, and I’ll do what Black women always do, ‘Come on in baby, are you hungry?’” she said. “Because that’s what Black women do, no matter what it is. We save life whenever we can, and we feed it, and we welcome that.” Fiercely determined to make every last minute count, Giovanni was still working during her final weeks. She’s expected to get the last word in the 2025 release of her forthcoming project, "The Last Book." ©2024 The Philadelphia Inquirer. Visit inquirer.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.