She also helped pave the way by editing an anthology of Black women poets called Night Comes Softly. Amazingly enough, Nikki Giovanni never stopped writing. When she died, she was working on her ...

Her autobiographical “Nikki-Rosa” poem has been reprinted in numerous collections. Her versatility as a writer was reflected in works such as “Spin a Soft Black Song” (1971) and “Ego ...

Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, who emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best ...

American Poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. Giovanni published her first poetry collection, "Black Feeling Black Talk," in 1968. Sad news now - Nikki Giovanni, one of the most ...

“Nikki-Rosa,” for example, begins with an ostensible lament—“Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you’re Black”—and ends with a defiant declaration of the poet’s subjecthood.

The passing of the beloved Nikki Giovanni has stunned the Black community everywhere, and in response, people are sharing the best moments from the writer’s long and successful career.

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet, activist and leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has died. The author died on Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Va., following her third ...

Her older sister, Gary Ann, nicknamed her Nikki. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Yolande and Gus began working as house parents in a school for Black boys, earning only ...

Nikki Giovanni passed away on Monday ... gaining acclaim in the late 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Her poems share her perspective on the importance of family and her well-established ...

“Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you’re Black,” she observed ironically, in her poem “Nikki-Rosa,” but she preferred to remind readers that “Black love is Black wealth.