In this personal essay, writer and bookseller Katie Mitchell reflects on the enduring love, legacy and literary devotion of Nikki Giovanni—felt most deeply in Black bookstores across the country.

A team of Virginia Tech faculty and students is helping people understand the late Nikki Giovanni’s poems in a new and immersive way, seven months after the poet and retired English professor ...

Virginia Tech honored the life and memory of longtime professor and well-regard poet Nikki Giovanni today at the appropriately titled “Black Love is Black Wealth: A Celebration of the Life and ...

The opening of an exhibit containing words from two Nikki Giovanni poems coincides with a Celebration of Life for the author and poet on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at Virginia Tech. Courtesy of Virginia ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) — Virginia Tech celebrated the legacy of esteemed poet, mentor, and artist Nikki Giovanni inside its Center for the Arts on Sunday. Giovanni died on December 9, 2024 ...

A new female African lion is now a resident of Zoo Knoxville, after she was brought to the zoo on a breeding recommendation.

Officers from the Knoxville Police Department are searching for a man who they said threatened a woman at gunpoint on Friday.

Let’s remember the day Knoxville gave its blessing to a synagogue – and choose to carry that spirit forward today. In September 1901, something historic happened in Knoxville.

After voting in favor of Mayor Indya Kincannon's proposed sales tax increase, the Knoxville City Council must vote again before voters could decide.