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

F. Willis Johnson Earlier this month, we lost a voice that rang for decades with the clarity of truth and the warmth of eternal joy. Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon of the Black ...

While the poem celebrates Giovanni's memories of Knoxville and her adolescence ... bookstore manager of Knoxville nonprofit The Bottom. “We point back to Nikki all the time in how we show up and how ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for ...

Friends, sorority sisters, high school classmates and admirers filled the pews of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Knoxville on ...

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

At the same Knoxville church where Nikki Giovanni sat in the pew as a child, a crowd of civil rights leaders, classmates, ...

When ASU professor Dr. Neal Lester was an undergrad, he got assigned in a poetry class to write a paper interpreting the work ...

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 ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the ... A public graveside burial service for Giovanni, an internationally recognized poet and provocateur, will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday ...