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 ...

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

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

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

Giovanni was renowned for her literary career and will serve as an inspiration for generations of Fisk University students to ...

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

A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.

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.

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

"She was a Trailblazer. No question about that. And the mere fact that she was born and spent many of her formative years here, shows the legacy of what Knoxville has produced. She's someone that ...