Despite my deep devastation, I find comfort knowing that Toni Cade Bambara and Nikki Giovanni share the same ascension day.

They were linked in life and are now linked as ancestors

December 9, 1995 + December 9, 2024

Ms. Giovanni battled cancer twice before and was still giving readings and performances within the past month. She was 81 years old. She is survived by her wife, Virginia Fowler, her son Thomas, her granddaughter, Kai •and• all of us who were transformed by her spoken and written words.

The legendary Black Arts poet and professor Nikki Giovanni joined the ancestors —December 9, 2024. 29-years to the day from when Toni Cade Bambara joined the ancestors.
Bambara included two of Giovanni’s poems “Woman Poem,” and “Nikki-Rosa,” in her groundbreaking 1970 The Black Woman, An Anthology.

I will not let this sacred day- 12/9/24 come to an end w/o acknowledging 29th anniversary of — daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, cousin, sista-friend, Black feminist author, filmmaker, cultural worker, teacher, &guiding ancestral Spirit —Toni Cade Bambara’s ascension into the ancestral realm.

🗣️Philly❣️

Buddhist Peace Fellowship | Kate Johnson, Pamela Freeman, Leslie Booker, & Me— for in-person Philly post election meditation & convo on Tues Nov 26 7-8:30.

Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1085288951...
🎗️Space is limited.
🧘🏾‍♀️Feel free to bring your meditation cushion
😷 masks are encouraged