There’s this video of Nikki Giovanni that I often return to ... effortless uniform from that time of a blazer, button-down shirt, and loosened tie, and even through the grain you can feel ...

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 ...