"Black love is Black wealth and they’ll / probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that / all the while I ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: ...

The second essential Giovanni poem, “Nikki-Rosa,” presents a more intimate but equally powerful meditation on Black childhood and the way poverty is viewed through white eyes. The poem’s ...

Giovanni wrote more than 25 books, including pioneering works like her 1970 debut poetry collection "Black Feeling, Black Talk." ...

Her best known work came early in her career; the 1968 poem "Nikki-Rosa." It was a declaration of her right to define herself, a warning to others (including obituary writers) against telling her ...

Throughout her career, Giovanni also penned many poetry anthologies, children’s books, and spoken word albums. Her autobiographical “Nikki-Rosa” poem has been reprinted in numerous collections.

During the Black Arts Movement, an explosion of art by artists during the Civil Rights Movement delving into the Black experience, Giovanni wrote poems including “Nikki-Rosa": "I really hope no white ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and ...