Giovanni's grandparents, Louvenia and John Brown Watson, were educators, and her parents attended Knoxville College, Kesler told Knox News ... a great cultural icon. … (But) it's a whole ...
And if you had the pleasure of spending any amount of time with the literary icon and social rights activist, your life was forever changed. Giovanni, who spent her formative years in Knoxville ...
Amid the same Knoxville congregation Nikki Giovanni worshipped with as a child, a crowd of civil rights leaders, classmates, sorority sisters and friends gathered for a memorial tribute to the ...
Nikki Giovanni, a Knoxville-born poet who sharpened her voice as a revolutionary in the Black Arts Movement and later published bestselling collections reflecting on loss, love and motherhood ...
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 ... told Knox News in an interview ...
told Knox News while remembering her late friend. The Beck Center – Knoxville's hub for Black history and archives – houses a permanent exhibit featuring some of Giovanni’s most sacred ...