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

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

Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving Knoxville.

To love. To care. That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young. Colleagues through the arts community, Young revered Giovanni's work and shared a few laughs with ...

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

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 ...

She also actively supported the Black Arts Movement during the late 1960s. Nikki Giovanni’s work celebrated the Black Joy with her being called Poet of the Black Revolution. Giovanni’s popular ...

Nikki Giovanni, the “Princess of Black Poetry ... though their styles and approaches differed markedly. Where Angelou’s work soared with majestic metaphor and sweeping historical narrative ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally ... gaining notoriety in the late 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni's work touched on civil rights, the Black Power ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet ... Across decades of work and activism, Giovanni continued returning to the neighborhood where she spent summers in Knoxville, a neighborhood ...