In Conversation: Nikki Giovanni & Joy-Ann Reid at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

'Titan of American poetry, Nikki Giovanni, spoke at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with the host of MSNBC’s AM Joy, Joy-Ann Reid. She was there to talk about her latest poetry collection, A Good Cry . Reid and Giovanni covered everything from Giovanni's attitude about aging, the memories she has of first meeting James Baldwin, and how good Maya Angelou may or may not have been at cooking chicken. The book also takes on intimate subjects such as Giovanni's memories of the violence of her father during her childhood and the student at Virginia Tech she taught who went on to massacre 33 of his schoolmates in 2006.' -- New York Public Library