The world said goodbye to a number of influential people in 2024. From famous TV personalities like Phil Donahue to more ...

F. Willis Johnson Earlier this month, we lost a voice that rang for decades with the clarity of truth and the warmth of eternal joy. Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon of the Black ...

Here are some of the notable figures in Ohio that we lost in 2024 (as of Dec. 23).

Antonio Dickey/Getty Images It’s a weird and tragic irony that giants of the Black intellectual, artistic, and cultural ...

We are looking back at some of the well-known Cincinnatians who died in 2024, including Pete Rose, Nikki Giovanni and Jim ...

Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet whose words gave voice to the voiceless during the civil rights movement and beyond, has died ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for ...

Friends, sorority sisters, high school classmates and admirers filled the pews of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Knoxville on ...

At the same Knoxville church where Nikki Giovanni sat in the pew as a child, a crowd of civil rights leaders, classmates, ...

When ASU professor Dr. Neal Lester was an undergrad, he got assigned in a poetry class to write a paper interpreting the work ...