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13 essential works by Knoxville's Nikki Giovanni

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Oprah Winfrey remembers Nikki Giovanni: ‘She helped me to love poetry and myself’

Oprah Winfrey, who honored Nikki Giovanni at her famous Legends Ball, shared with Knox News her favorite poem.

Nikki Giovanni's incredible life: 19 events that took the poet from Knoxville to global stage

Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving.

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'Nikki Giovanni is a legend in her own right' | The legacy the Knoxville-native leaves behind

On her visits back to her hometown, Giovanni would stop at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center to look through the archival room at her family's history. Last year, she sent almost 50 boxes of her treasured items to be featured in a permanent exhibit.

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Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life

In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: ...

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Biden offers statement on Virginia Tech's Nikki Giovanni

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

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Fisk University, community mourns poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni

Giovanni was renowned for her literary career and will serve as an inspiration for generations of Fisk University students to ...

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Nikki Giovanni remembered as a trailblazer for civil rights, Black Arts Movement. 'A mighty tree has fallen'

Following the death of Nikki Giovanni, celebrities and leaders honored the late poet on social media. See the heartfelt reactions.

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