Nikki Giovanni taught me how to make words paint ... a creative writing professor and a co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that honors Black writers.

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 ...

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 ...

Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving Knoxville.

Nikki Giovanni navigated the world with unwavering conviction and wisdom, and a voice that was at once brilliant, humorous and full of love. She spoke candidly with James Baldwin about race and ...

Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. Giovanni was a poet, author, educator and public speaker who became a literary celebrity. She was the author of more than 25 books and served as a faculty ...

Giovanni, the National Book Award finalist and ... walking through the museum it was a surprise to all of us (including Nikki) that she was quoted in one of the exhibits. It was tear-jerking ...

Brown, a professor of history at Mary Baldwin University, met Nikki Giovanni as a Virginia Tech undergrad in 1991.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and ...