Nikki Giovanni

Watch a live video stream as host Anna Sale sits down for an evening of conversation with one of America's foremost poets.

The reasons behind our spending money. Nikki Giovanni learns from tears & laughter. NBA Hall of Famer Bernard King looks back on his career.

Nikki Giovanni joins us to discuss her book "A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter."

In a speech aired on WNYC in 1957, poet and civil rights icon Langston Hughes grappled with finding an authentic American voice in the face of prejudice.

Poet Maya Angelou died today at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86-years-old. The Takeaway spoke to poet Nikki Giovanni about her 40-plus-year friendship with Maya ...

Angelou, the renowned and beloved poet and activist, died Wednesday at the age of 86. Her friend Nikki Giovanni, a poet, commentator and activist, and Kwame Dawes, a poet and a profes...

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Poet Nikki Giovanni is the author of twenty-seven books and a three-time NAACP award winner. Her latest collection is called Bicycles. You can read excerpts from the book here

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Nikki Giovanni and Emmanuel Jal will discuss their work with Katherine Lanpher
Tonight, February ...

Nikki Giovanni has always forged her own path through life. She self- published her first volumes of poetry, Black Feeling , Black Talk and Black Judgement , because they were considered out of the mainstream at that time. And as a result, she became a leading figure in the Black ...