Please share and follow us: Born, Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. on June 7, 1943, Nikki Giovanni lived her life as an activist ...

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

I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the most influential Black authors of the 20th century, will soon be buried in Cincinnati. A public graveside burial service for Giovanni ...

Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet whose words gave voice to the voiceless during the civil rights movement and beyond, has died ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it. Her matter-of-fact ...

Friends, sorority sisters, high school classmates and admirers filled the pews of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Knoxville on ...

To support. To love. To care. That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young. Colleagues through the arts community, Young revered Giovanni's work and shared a few ...