Nikki Giovanni, the fiery poet, author, activist, and educator whose words remind us of the power of art to evoke change, inspire hope, and express the depth of the human experience, died on Dec. 9, ...

Her death in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Monday followed her third cancer diagnosis. The Knoxville, Tennessee, native was born ...

REST IN POWER 💔 Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her ...

Nikki Giovanni, the ground-breaking poet, author, and professor whose work embodied the spirit of the Black Arts Movement and ...

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

Visionary entrepreneur and producer Tiana Von Johnson proudly presents the “I Have a Dream” Black History Month Benefit ...

Renowned poet, author, and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 after a recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Her legacy will live ...

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 ...

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

She was a key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s power in civil rights activism ...

A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.

She was 4 when her family moved to Ohio and eventually settled in the Black community of Lincoln Heights, outside Cincinnati.