His young granddaughter Veronica said, “I don’t think I want to try to catch Santa this year.” When Gale’s youngest son, Luke ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the most influential Black authors of the 20th century, will soon be buried in ...

Nikki Giovanni, an acclaimed poet and activist, has passed away at the age of 81, leaving behind a legacy of Black strength ...

Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, 81, died on December 9. She used language as a tool to inspire, celebrate, and ...

The author of “The Canterbury Tales’” was a bureaucrat. businessman and emissary. He wove the colorful personalities he ...

The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights […] ...

Nikki Giovanni, the groundbreaking poet, author, and professor whose work embodied the spirit of the Black Arts Movement and ...

When a poet functions at their highest calling, they have the power to shift the universe of a reader. A perfectly curated ...

1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open ... Chaucer was born into an upwardly mobile family. His great-grandfather was a tavern keeper in Ipswich, his ...

“Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter Kai ... reciting a poem encouraging Black Americans to exercise ...

The charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor wrote, irresistibly, about race, politics, gender, sex and love.