In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: ...

Knoxville, Tennessee-born and Fisk University educated poet Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at the age of 81. She left an ...

Oprah Winfrey, who honored Nikki Giovanni at her famous Legends Ball, shared with Knox News her favorite poem.

For young people trying to find their way in a world marked by uncertainty and precarity, Giovanni offers more than poetic ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

The poet, who died Monday, set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by ...

President Biden released a statement mourning Nikki Giovanni, calling her a “pioneering” poet who “used her pen to advance ...

OnMonday,literary giant Nikki Giovanni died at 81. Shortly after the news of her passing became public, there was a palpable ...

The iconic figure who spent five decades shaping conversations around Black identity and social justice leaves behind a ...

A key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the poet and activist is celebrated for her illuminating works ...

A university professor and author by trade, Giovanni was quoted saying her best audiences were college students and prison inmates. Her social reach was infinitely more expansive.

Renowned poet, author, and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 after a recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Her legacy will live ...