Kwame Alexander, Marita Golden and other authors mourn the death of revered poet and civil rights champion Nikki Giovanni.

In the wake of Nikki Giovanni’s passing on Monday, at 81, it will be tempting to idealize her as the elder stateswoman of ...

But one Chicagoan was lucky enough to honor Giovanni while she was still alive.

I never had a Black teacher in school. My Dad was my first Black teacher. Nikki Giovanni was my second. Her poetry opened ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...

Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81.

A key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the poet and activist is celebrated for her illuminating works ...

The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her ...

Nikki Giovanni, the Black Arts poet who died on Monday at the age of 81, catapulted to fame in her 20s and remained a ...

This is a reprint of a 2022 column by John Job in which he interviewed Nikki Giovanni in a preview of that year's Big Ears ...

In a story published Dec. 10, 2024, about the death of Nikki Giovanni, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of ...

NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first ...