(ThyBlackMan.com) Nikki Giovanni’s poetic legacy stands as a bold expression of resilience, identity, love, and revolution in ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni ... happy," she wrote in the closing lines of her poem "Nikki-Rosa." Across decades of work and activism, Giovanni continued returning to the neighborhood ...

‘The Princess of Black Poetry” Nikki Giovanni has died ... Song,” followed by “Rosa,” which told the story of Rosa Parks and was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal.

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during ... friendly with other cultural iconoclasts, including Rosa Parks, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Muhammad Ali.

NEW YORK (AP) - Nikki Giovanni ... when other guests of honor included Rosa Parks and Toni Morrison. Giovanni was a National Book Award finalist in 1973 for a prose work about her life ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Giovanni, 81, held many titles. She was a ...

The Nikki Giovanni Project.” As a prominent figure of the Black Arts and Civil Rights movements, she became friends with Rosa ...