Nikki Giovanni was an intriguing complexity of strength and vulnerability. Her remarkable literary journey was evinced in her poetry.

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.

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

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

Nikki Giovanni — a poet, author, activist and longtime Virginia Tech professor — was an icon in life whose work with echo for generations.

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

"Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter ...

President Biden honors the late poet Nikki Giovanni, emphasizing her influence as a voice for equality and justice in an official White House statement.

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

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

Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement Wednesday on the death of poet Nikki Giovanni, who died Monday. She was 81.

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