“Nikki Giovanni loomed as an essential and powerful figure in American ... of our nation as a land where all are valued and all are free to be themselves and love who they wish to love.” First ...

Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” released just before Nikki Giovanni’s ...

Nikki Giovanni was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America on Feb. 26, two months after her death. The organization said it had nominated Giovanni for the ...