Saxophonist/Composer Javon Jackson And Poet Nikki Giovanni Nominated For NAACP Image Award In 'Outstanding Jazz Album' ...

It's easy to feel lost in a nation that has lost its bearings. But Nikki Giovanni's life and works will comfort us as we ...

Nikki Giovanni taught at Virginia Tech for 35 years until 2022. Photo: Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown. “But being in her class opened my eyes up to so much,” Tillerson-Brown said. Discussions in the ...

On Dec.19, friends, family, fans and community members gathered at Spring Grove Cemetery to say their final goodbyes to Nikki Giovanni. The public graveside ceremony took place in her hometown of ...

Here’s hoping next week won’t have to strike that same balance. Kwame Alexander went on The Late Show and read his late mentor Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Still Life With Apron.” The story he told of how ...

Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon of the Black Arts movement, passed away at the age of 81. The news struck me with the force of personal loss — not just because we lost a ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. was born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. During the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s — the Harlem Renaissance of my lifetime — she ...

Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon of the Black Arts movement, passed away at the age of 81. The news struck me with the force of personal loss not just because we lost a ...

The annual events will kick off with the Unity Breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by the downtown march at 1 and a full program at ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a tremendous loss. I thought I was going to ...

Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet whose words gave voice to the voiceless during the civil rights movement and beyond, has died at 81. Giovanni authored more than 30 books, including “Black ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January ...