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, a celebrated author and poet, was laid to rest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her legacy of empowering Black communities lives on.

Poet, activist and former Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni showed us that poetry could be a path to liberation. Now, it ...

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

Nikki Giovanni, the poet ... her readings and other live appearances and her years on the faculty of Virginia Tech and other schools. Giovanni's poetry collections, including "Black Judgement ...

Nikki Giovanni, renowned globally as a literary legend and locally for her indelible imprint on Virginia Tech, died Monday at the age of 81. During her 35 years as a professor in the Department of ...

Nikki Giovanni, renowned globally as a literary legend and for her indelible imprint on Virginia Tech, died Monday at the age of 81, it was announced Tuesday. During her 35 years as a professor in ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville ... much of the latter half of her life as a professor at Virginia Tech in the school's Department of English, where she worked ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – During one of Virginia Tech’s darkest hours, one of its brightest lights illuminated the way forward. Nikki Giovanni’s stirring “We Are Virginia Tech” poem received a ...

a fellow faculty member at Virginia Tech. She was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was soon called “Nikki” by her older sister. She was 4 when her family moved ...

It would be trite to call Nikki Giovanni a force of nature ... Virginia Fowler, who recruited Giovanni to Virginia Tech, helped lead the school’s English department and edited Giovanni ...