“We will forever feel blessed to have shared a legacy and love with our dear cousin ... Below are some Nikki Giovanni poems that will lift your spirits while going through something.

"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 ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

Poet, activist and former Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni showed us that poetry could be a path to liberation. Now, it ...

“I was raised on Nikki Giovanni poems – speaking them out loud to myself, at school, or to anyone who would listen,” Winfrey shared with Knox News in a statement after Giovanni's death on Dec. 9. “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, a Knoxville-born poet who sharpened her voice as a revolutionary in the Black Arts Movement and later published bestselling collections reflecting on loss, love and motherhood ...

"Black love is Black wealth and they ... happy," she wrote in the closing lines of her poem "Nikki-Rosa." Across decades of work and activism, Giovanni continued returning to the neighborhood ...

Nikki Giovanni was a legend ... “She helped me to love poetry and myself. She’s always been an empowering legend and now forever more,” Winfrey continued. Giovanni was among 25 Black ...

American poet Yolanda Cornelia 'Nikki' Giovanni leans on her desk beside ... “She helped me to love poetry and myself. She’s always been an empowering legend and now forever more,” Winfrey ...