Nikki Giovanni, the writer and poet who died this week, taught Black history educator Abigail Henry much about Mars, freedom dreaming, and the power of a good cry.

Giovanni understood that Black American cultural history was, in part, the inevitable result of centuries-long oppression—but that it was also the product of constant evolution.

Nikki Giovanni, forever a legend. Giovanni died Dec. 9 at the age of 81 due to complications from lung cancer. She is remembered as revolutionary poet and activist and a trailblazer in the Black ...

A fter learning that Nikki Giovanni, a world-renowned Black poet and Black Arts Movement leader, passed away at 81, many naturally responded by sharing and discussing her work. Poems, lectures ...

In 1971, writers James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni sat down for a riveting two-hour conversation about Black love and ...

Giovanni’s first published work was the poetry collection Black Feelings, Black Talk in 1968, a book that heralded her a powerful figure in the burgeoning Black Arts movement of the 60s and 70s.