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 was a brilliant poet, a big-hearted educator, and an unapologetic voice for justice and equality.As a leading voice of the Black Arts ...

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

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

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 ...

The 46th president praised the late Giovanni as a “pioneering poet of the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights […] ...

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.

Family, friends, colleagues and millions of fans are mourning the loss of Nikki Giovanni. The acclaimed poet, Civil Rights activist and educator died after battling cancer for the third time.