Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Giovanni, 81, held many titles.

When ASU professor Dr. Neal Lester was an undergrad, he got assigned in a poetry class to write a paper interpreting the work ...

Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a child ... an activist and community leader who was friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke of how Giovanni's ...

(Children’s Defense Fund) – When poet, essayist, scholar and activist Nikki Giovanni passed away on Dec. 9 ... Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Dr. Dorothy ...

For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s voice allowed readers and listeners to recognize ... Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Dr. Dorothy Height, U.S. Poet Laureate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Even a Nikki Giovanni or a Dr. Trudier Harris (another Wintergreen participant), icons and flames, need pilot lights. ... Every great writer and culture worker needs a space where they’re ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

But the death of Nikki Giovanni on Monday, at 81, felt different. That night, after putting my son to bed, I searched for her name in my Gmail account, looking for correspondence involving an ...