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 Nikki Giovanni’s death on Dec. 9, 2024, hit me in a way that I had not expected. First, I didn’t know that she was ...

Some of Black culture's most beloved icons in music, film and entertainment have passed away in 2024. Here are just a few ...

Nikki Giovanni, a celebrated author and poet, was laid to rest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her legacy of empowering Black communities lives on.

This included poems about the assassination ... she took a step back from writing about Black struggles. She then began to ...

Giovanni did not dream of being a writer ... the Civil Rights Movement delving into the Black experience, Giovanni wrote poems including “Nikki-Rosa": "I really hope no white person ever ...

She insisted on being seen. Her career stretched from the 1950s until the ... While probably best known for vibrant, ...

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural ...

On the topic of lesbian artists/change makers I’ve known, Fortune has graced me with a wildly diverse list. Celebrating their ...

Around the time Elon Musk launched his SpaceX quest to colonize Mars, Nikki Giovanni published a poem on what we should take there and what we should leave behind. Her 2002 work, “Quilting the ...

Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki ... Giovanni was an unsparing teller of hard truths. Known for her unmistakable poetry on race, love and justice, Giovanni came to prominence during the ...