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

My introduction to Nikki Giovanni came through “Ego-Tripping ... At the end of her performance last Saturday, during the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, Giovanni performed a version of ”Ego-Tripping” ...

But there was also a bit of that Nikki Giovanni poem "Nikki-Rosa," love and creativity through Grandmama's genius at making do with a little and unflinching faith—whatever the hand dealt her ...

Nikki Giovanni will deliver the keynote lecture for Saint Louis University’s Black History Month celebration, hosted by SLU's Black Student Alliance. The famed poet, activist and professor will speak ...

Photo: Supplied/Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Edwina Hay Jamila Woods a poet, songwriter and performing artist from the South ...

Renowned author and poet Nikki Giovanni hosted Virginia State University’s second Triennial James Arthur Baldwin ...

She memorized poems such as “Still I Rise” as if she were “taking notes on my impending womanhood.” Through Angelou, she found Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange and Toni Morrison.

In the song Hey Mama from his hit 2005 album Late Registration, Kanye compares his mum to a book of poetry, referencing writers Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni. And in 2010, he wrote in a blog ...

Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove. The award is reserved for poets whose “substantial body of work has influenced and inspired younger poets.” In addition to Seibles’ seven books of poetry ...

The university’s graduates include the renowned historian John Hope Franklin, the poet and playwright Nikki Giovanni, and the dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Other festival events on Saturday include a musical take on the poetry of Nikki Giovanni with jazzmen Javon Jackson and Christian McBride joining ...