Hamilton, Dennis Giovanni, Nikki

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Poet Nikki Giovanni talks about current affairs on the third anniversary of the Attica uprising. She was in Moorhead for a poetry reading on the Concordia College campus. Nikki Giovanni is one of the leading voices in the black artist movement. On third anniversry of Attica prison rebellion at press conference she says that what the government did was wrong. She says the U.S. is in serious moral trouble; it's a very bad mentality to send poor people to prison and pardon rich people. Additionally, Rockefeller should answer for giving the order for the attack at Attica. Giovanni also says the government didin't have a case in Wounded Knee; it was a lie from the beginning. It was a political situation, the government started sending the same message to blacks in the 1960s.

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Minnesota Public Radio