Her works not only earned critical acclaim but an enduring position as one of the foremost luminaries of Black liberation.

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...

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

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

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” “We love because it's the only true adventure.” “If you don't understand ...

Giovanni died with her lifelong partner, Virginia “Ginney” Fowler, by her side, her friend Renée Watson said in a statement.

Nikki Giovanni, the “Princess of Black Poetry ... and the way poverty is viewed through white eyes. The poem’s famous closing lines – “Black love is Black wealth” – encapsulate ...

She was best known for her outspoken advocacy and ... including her Grammy-nominated “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” She was a frequent guest on the PBS talk show "Soul." ...

During the Black Arts Movement, an explosion of art by artists during the Civil Rights Movement delving into the Black experience, Giovanni wrote poems including “Nikki-Rosa": "I really hope no ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...