Please share and follow us: Born, Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. on June 7, 1943, Nikki Giovanni lived her life as an activist ...

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

The beloved poet, who died this week at 81, had a rare willingness to be wrong and learn from others.

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 ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then came the shocking mass shooting at Virginia Tech.

The late poet spent over half a century in the public eye with her unabashed writing, her fiery, funny speeches, and her careful inquiries of other thinkers.

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

The trailblazing poet, artist, educator, and lifelong activist Nikki Giovanni, known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” died on Monday, December 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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

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 ...

In the wake of Nikki Giovanni’s passing on Monday ... and this gave her the confidence to fail; to make an art out of mistakes. “I have a heavy foot,” she told the critic Claudia Tate ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it. Her matter-of-fact ...