It's easy to feel lost in a nation that has lost its bearings. But Nikki Giovanni's life and works will comfort us as we ...

Nikki Giovanni, a celebrated author and poet, was laid to rest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her legacy of empowering Black communities lives on.

Rev. Renee Kesler, director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, delivers a eulogy for her friend, ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally ... who came from right where I came from,” Kesler told Knox News last year. Her 1970 poem "Knoxville, Tennessee ...

Rhea Carmon, the former poet laureate of Knoxville, was a University of Tennessee undergraduate when she first met Nikki Giovanni, the poet who inspired her to become one, herself. It happened ...

The Nikki Giovanni Project.” Giovanni’s ties to the city of Knoxville and East Tennessee were central to her Appalachian identity. She paid homage to both in a number of her literary works ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the most influential ... Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to her parents, Yolande Cornelia Sr. and Jones "Gus" Giovanni on June 7 ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally ... Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to her parents, Yolande Cornelia Sr. and Jones "Gus" Giovanni on June 7, 1943.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally recognized poet ... Fowler once called her "the definitive 'poet of the people.'" Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to her parents, ...