In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading. At the beginning of the 2023 documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, she offered an inventive take on how the loss affected her: “I remember what’s important,

President Biden released a statement mourning Nikki Giovanni, calling her a “pioneering” poet who “used her pen to advance racial and gender equality and confront violence, hate and injustice.” Giovanni died Monday in Blacksburg,

Nikki Giovanni, the Black Arts poet who died on Monday at the age of 81, catapulted to fame in her 20s and remained a celebrity for the rest of her life thanks to her charisma, he