including ‘Black Feeling Black Talk’ Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet, activist and leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has died. The author died on Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Va., following ...

Acclaimed poet and literary force Nikki Giovanni, who was at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement, and known across the world for her defiant yet endearing prose about race, gender ...

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

Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a ... Giovanni came to prominence during the Black Arts Movement, during which she performed spoken word to packed audiences ...

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

The Black Arts Movement? James Baldwin? Malcolm X? Of course. But I hadn’t picked up on Giovanni’s interest ... a surprise to all of us (including Nikki) that she was quoted in one of the ...

Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81. “The acclaimed poet, Black Arts Movement icon whose poems of wit, wonder, and wisdom were celebrated in ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the most ... who gained notoriety in the late 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni wrote more than two dozen bestselling poetry ...

On Monday, Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., renowned American ... was established as one of the leading voices in the Black Arts Movement and had become known as “Poet of the Black ...

The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights era.” President Joe Biden eulogized Nikki Giovanni in an official White House ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet ... the same year she self-published "Black Judgement." The radical Black Arts Movement was at its height and early Giovanni poems such as "A Short ...