When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January ... I wanted to leave the university, where her sister-friend Maya Angelou had taught for decades, but Nikki texted via her partner of nearly ...

As excited as I was to be working with Nikki Giovanni—a friend of Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou—it was this rejection, or rather the reasoning behind it, that made me feel like a real ...

Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet who passed away ... performing the satirical poem “My Hair is Laid Like Poetry” in the style of Maya Angelou. Giovanni evidently loved it.

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure ... delivery and was a friend of fellow wordsmiths Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.

Nikki Giovanni, a queer Black poet ... In 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy for best spoken word album. Alongside Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Aretha Franklin, and many more, Giovanni was ...

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 ...