Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville ... The poet had an infamous tattoo on her left forearm that said "Thug Life," In reference to Tupac Shakur, son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur ...

Her life was honored with a series ... on Black communities from the media company who has been doing it right for over 132 years. Sign up Nikki Giovanni is now interred in Spring Grove Cemetery ...

Nikki Giovanni navigated ... She had a "Thug Life" tattoo on her forearm that paid homage to the phrase Tupac had tattooed across his stomach. When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at 81, she had written ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words ... she — is a folk hero. “I’m a thug,” she’d tell anyone who would listen, showing off the “Thug Life” tattoo emblazoned on her left arm ...

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.

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 navigated the world ... Toni Morrison. She had a "Thug Life" tattoo on her forearm that paid homage to the phrase Tupac had tattooed across his stomach. When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January ... for whom he — like she — is a folk hero. “I’m a thug,” she’d tell anyone who would listen, showing off the “Thug Life” tattoo emblazoned on her ...