Nostalgia, and in particular a longing for her childhood in Knoxville, was one of the defining subjects of her work. Here are milestones from the incredible life of Nikki Giovanni.

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

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

Dec. 10, 2024 Nikki Giovanni, the Black Arts poet who died on Monday at the age of 81, catapulted to fame in her 20s and remained a celebrity for the rest of her life thanks to her charisma ...

Giovanni’s essay helped readers remember that Serena was human, had a life, struggled because of her fame and the pressure ...

In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, she offered an inventive take on how the ...

Of the few photographs of Nikki Giovanni's tattoo, I am now the taker of one of them. The poet had an infamous tattoo on her left forearm that said "Thug Life," In reference to Tupac Shakur ...

Nikki Giovanni ... least made us what we are.” Her political views softened partly because of the birth of her son, Thomas Watson Giovanni, who “gave my life meaning,” she told the Sun ...

Nikki Giovanni, the trailblazing poet ... We put things together in ways no one else does.” Throughout her life, Giovanni forged bonds with cultural giants such as Rosa Parks, James Baldwin ...