Nikki Giovanni, a celebrated author and poet, was laid to rest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her legacy of empowering Black ...

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

Giovanni spent much of the latter half of her life as a professor at Virginia ... Giovanni wrote poems including “Nikki-Rosa": "I really hope no white person ever has cause / to write about ...

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

That's what "Mama" Nikki ... life. When Young learned of Giovanni's death on Dec 9., time paused. "It was heavy," Young said. He knew that he had to do something to honor her memory. So, the poet ...

Nikki Giovanni ... She had a "Thug Life" tattoo on her forearm that paid homage to the phrase Tupac had tattooed across his stomach. When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at 81, she had written over 25 books, ...

Writing about the loss of public figures is something I rarely do, because my muddled thoughts typically take more time to ...

Giovanni’s essay helped readers remember that Serena was human, had a life, struggled because of her fame and the pressure ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt ...