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

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

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

and took place just hours before news spread that Sanchez’s friend and fellow member of the Black Arts movement, Nikki Giovanni, passed away the same day at 81 years old. “When I [began] Black studies ...

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

"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.

For young people trying to find their way in a world marked by uncertainty and precarity, Giovanni offers more than poetic ...

Knoxville, Tennessee-born and Fisk University educated poet Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at the age of 81. She left an ...

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

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...