Nikki Giovanni's high school classmates, sorority sisters and fellow civil rights activists gathered at her childhood church ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from ...

Poet Nikki Giovanni’s death on Dec. 9, 2024, hit me in a way that I had not expected. First, I didn’t know that she was ...

Earlier this month, we lost a voice that rang for decades with the clarity of truth and the warmth of eternal joy. Nikki ...

Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving Knoxville.

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at 81, she had written over 25 books, which include poems exploring love, music and even the ...

Giovanni’s essay helped readers remember that Serena was human, had a life, struggled because of her fame and the pressure ...

To support. To love. To care. That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young. Colleagues through the arts community, Young revered Giovanni's work and shared a few ...

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural ...

Nikki Giovanni, a Knoxville-born poet who sharpened her voice as a revolutionary in the Black Arts Movement and later published bestselling collections reflecting on loss, love and motherhood ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Giovanni was a prolific writer, activist, educator ...