So we know that race is illogical.” When I am feeling pessimistic about Black history education, I dream of Mars because of Nikki Giovanni. I started dreaming of this Afrofuture decades ago ...

Nikki Giovanni, the “Princess of Black Poetry,” who transformed the landscape of American literature with her unapologetic verse and fierce advocacy for Black consciousness, passed away at 80.

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

It's easy to feel lost in a nation that has lost its bearings. But Nikki Giovanni's life and works will comfort us as we ...

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

I don't want to ruin anyone's dreams so I'll say this ... Good Cry,” and many on our staff were excited that the great Nikki Giovanni was blessing our studio with her presence.

But also joy and love and, later, dreams of space. Maybe Giovanni couldn’t shape the ... ‘Okay now since Nikki learned that, I can go forward’… There’s no point in me having trod the ...

I felt somehow understood the first time I heard these words, just as I felt understood the first time I read a Nikki Giovanni poem, “Revolutionary Dreams,” at 17, and sensed a large window in ...

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet ... I feel so sorry for the kids who only hear one kind of music. Where do your dreams come from? My dream was not to publish or to even be a writer: my dream ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally ... Remembering those we lost: Celebrity Deaths 2024 Giovanni did not dream of being a writer. "I think I just recognized I couldn ...