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 ...

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

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

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

Nikki Giovanni, a pioneering Black lesbian poet, essayist, and philosopher, died Dec. 9 at 81 after a lung cancer recurrence.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...