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

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr ... literally was born in my backyard, who came from right where I came from,” Kesler told Knox News last year. Her 1970 poem "Knoxville, Tennessee ...

A small tribute to Nikki Giovanni was set up at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on Dec. 12, 2024. "God blessed me with enough breath in my lungs and mobility in my limbs to do that, so I did it ...

That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni ... and placed it at the Poetry Foundation in her honor as an impromptu memorial. Young encouraged other poets touched by Giovanni's influence to do the same. "God ...

That's what "Mama" Nikki ... Poetry Foundation in her honor as an impromptu memorial. Young encouraged other poets touched by Giovanni's influence to do the same. "God blessed me with enough ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of ... 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni wrote more than two dozen bestselling poetry collections and children's books during her ...

When Nikki Giovanni ... the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her. Less than three months later, I confronted my fear of my artistic ...

She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” In January 2009, at the request of NPR, she wrote a poem about the incoming president ...