Nikki Giovanni's high school classmates, sorority sisters and fellow civil rights activists gathered at her childhood church ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

Poet Nikki Giovanni’s death on Dec. 9, 2024, hit me in a way that I had not expected. First, I didn’t know that she was ...

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

Earlier this month, we lost a voice that rang for decades with the clarity of truth and the warmth of eternal joy. Nikki ...

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

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

When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at 81, she had written over 25 books, which include poems exploring love, music and even the ...

Giovanni’s essay helped readers remember that Serena was human, had a life, struggled because of her fame and the pressure ...

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural ...

Nikki Giovanni, a Knoxville-born poet who sharpened her voice as a revolutionary in the Black Arts Movement and later published bestselling collections reflecting on loss, love and motherhood ...