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

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

The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights […] ...

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

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

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 ...

"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.

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

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

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

In its founding years in the early 20th century, the Louisiana State Museum borrowed dozens of artworks from Marshall Marcell ...