Vladimir Nabokov offers in his “Lectures on Literature” a scrupulous definition of what it feels like to read good works of ...

Nikki Giovanni was an intriguing complexity of strength and vulnerability. Her remarkable literary journey was evinced in her poetry.

The iconic figure who spent five decades shaping conversations around Black identity and social justice leaves behind a ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...

A university professor and author by trade, Giovanni was quoted saying her best audiences were college students and prison inmates. Her social reach was infinitely more expansive.

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

Renowned poet, author, and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 after a recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Her legacy will live ...

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

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

Nikki Giovanni, a pioneering Black lesbian poet, essayist, and philosopher, died Dec. 9 at 81 after a lung cancer recurrence.

The Savannah Police Department (SPD) is investigating a fatal hit-and-run after a pedestrian was hit Tuesday evening.

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