By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Nikki Giovanni, the groundbreaking poet, author, and professor whose work embodied the spirit of the Black Arts Movement and beyond, died on Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, confirmed the cause was complications from lung cancer. Born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni ...

The San Bernardino Public Library will host award-winning author and poet, Kwame Alexander and musician Randy Preston on Tuesday, October 22. The free all-ages event will be held at 6 pm in the Bing Wong Auditorium at the Feldheym Central Library, located at 555 W. 6th Street. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times Bestselling author ...

By Lauren Victoria Burke Pioneering poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died on the morning of October 27 at an assisted living facility in Bowie, Maryland. She was best known for her much celebrated Obie Award-winning play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.” “To our extended family and friends, it is with ...