Kwame Alexander, Marita Golden and other authors mourn the death of revered poet and civil rights champion Nikki Giovanni.

But one Chicagoan was lucky enough to honor Giovanni while she was still alive.

The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her ...

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

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

This is a reprint of a 2022 column by John Job in which he interviewed Nikki Giovanni in a preview of that year's Big Ears ...

Nikki Giovanni, the Black Arts poet who died on Monday at the age of 81, catapulted to fame in her 20s and remained a ...

The poet, who died Monday, set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

Giovanni wrote more than 25 books, including pioneering works like her 1970 debut poetry collection "Black Feeling, Black ...

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

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