The iconic figure who spent five decades shaping conversations around Black identity and social justice leaves behind a ...

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

Nikki Giovanni — a poet, author, activist and longtime Virginia Tech professor — was an icon in life whose work with echo for generations.

At a reading in the early days of the Front Porch Arts Collective, the Black-led theater company that he cofounded in 2017, ...

"Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter ...

President Biden honors the late poet Nikki Giovanni, emphasizing her influence as a voice for equality and justice in an official White House statement.

An art festival in Senegal coaxes a youthful continent toward a future no longer defined by a painful past.

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement Wednesday on the death of poet Nikki Giovanni, who died Monday. She was 81.

President Biden released a statement mourning Nikki Giovanni, calling her a “pioneering” poet who “used her pen to advance ...

Trailblazing poet, writer, activist, educator, and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni passed away on Monday at the age of 81. Per NPR, Giovanni’s passing came after she was diagnosed with ...

Truth is On Its Way is just a reminder of how evident Giovanni’s vision and genius was, from the very beginning ...