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

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

From former Knoxville mayors to inspired writers, many people treasured the time they spent with acclaimed poet Nikki ...

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

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

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.

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

A leader in the Black Arts movement, and a powerful advocate for Black women writers has passed away after a battle with lung ...

"She was a Trailblazer. No question about that. And the mere fact that she was born and spent many of her formative years here, shows the legacy of what Knoxville has produced. She's someone that ...

‘The Princess of Black Poetry” Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81 years old. Giovanni’s wife said she died from ...

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