It's easy to feel lost in a nation that has lost its bearings. But Nikki Giovanni's life and works will comfort us as we ...

Nikki Giovanni taught at Virginia Tech for 35 years until 2022. Photo: Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown. “But being in her class opened my eyes up to so much,” Tillerson-Brown said. Discussions in the ...

On Dec.19, friends, family, fans and community members gathered at Spring Grove Cemetery to say their final goodbyes to Nikki Giovanni. The public graveside ceremony took place in her hometown of ...

Around the time Elon Musk launched his SpaceX quest to colonize Mars, Nikki Giovanni published a poem on what we should take there and what we should leave behind. Her 2002 work, “Quilting the B ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. was born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. During the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s — the Harlem Renaissance of my lifetime — she ...

The annual events will kick off with the Unity Breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by the downtown march at 1 and a full program at ...

Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a child, a crowd of civil rights leaders, classmates, sorority sisters and friends gathered for a memorial tribute to the ...

Around the time Elon Musk launched his SpaceX quest to colonize Mars, Nikki Giovanni published a poem on what we should take there and what we should leave behind. Her 2002 work, “Quilting the B ...

Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon of the Black Arts movement, passed away at the age of 81. The news struck me with the force of personal loss — not just because we lost a ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a tremendous loss. I thought I was going to ...