Nikki Giovanni — a poet, author, activist and longtime Virginia Tech professor — was an icon in life whose work with echo for generations.

A key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the poet and activist is celebrated for her illuminating works ...

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

President Biden honors the late poet Nikki Giovanni, emphasizing her influence as a voice for equality and justice in an official White House statement.

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

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

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Nikki Giovanni, the groundbreaking poet, author, and professor whose work embodied the spirit of the Black Arts Movement ...

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

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

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to ...

Giovanni first published her poetry collection in 1968 and quickly became a figure in the Black literary arts world and the Civil Rights movement.