“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.

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

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

“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 ...

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

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” “We love because it's the only true adventure.” “If you don't understand ...

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 ...

"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 ...