Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her ...

OnMonday,literary giant Nikki Giovanni died at 81. Shortly after the news of her passing became public, there was a palpable ...

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

It was a handwritten note from Nikki Giovanni. The celebrated poet and activist had already invited Jones to speak at Virginia Tech about her debut novel, “Leaving Atlanta.” Jones would later call it ...

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

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

The poet, who died Monday, set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by ...

Nikki Giovanni, the Black Arts poet who died on Monday at the age of 81, catapulted to fame in her 20s and remained a ...