Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville native, has closed her final chapter. She died Dec. 9 at the age of 81. Giovanni is a civil rights icon and one of the world's most famed ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

, let us strive to continue amplifying the voices of those who challenge the status quo and who envision a world where all people can thrive free from all forms of unlawful discrimination.

Photo by Andrew Adkins for Virginia Tech. Literary legend and retired Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni completed her final chapter on Monday, December 9, 2024. Named by Oprah Winfrey as one ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it. Her matter-of-fact ...

Nikki Giovanni was a writer, poet, activist and educator who was one of the world’s best known African American poets. Her work expressed outspoken views on race, gender, violence and inequality.

To the excitement of its community, Infold reveals that an extremely popular character in Infinity Nikki is coming back in a ...

Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies' was the last project Giovanni released before her December 2024 passing. Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies, a collaboration between the groundbreaking poet and activist ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...