Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the ...

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 ...

Nikki Giovanni ... including 13 children's books and 20 poetry collections. Though she was friends with some of the most famous artists of her time, such as James Baldwin and Nina Simone, she ...

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

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." ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet ... for you to have the right to vote.” Her best known work came early in her career; the 1968 poem “Nikki-Rosa.” It was a declaration of her ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki ... be famous," Giovanni said. "That's not what I'm about. I am an artist, so what I would like is to be read." Giovanni is set to release a posthumous book of poetry ...