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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet and Black queer icon, has died at age 81. Giovanni died Monday in a hospital in Blacksburg, ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to ...

Acclaimed poet and literary force Nikki Giovanni, who was at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement, and known across the ...