Carson High School proudly celebrated the graduation of 490 seniors during the 2025 Commencement Ceremonies held Saturday, ...

With the force of a rising tide and the pulse of ancestral memory, Ruby Ibarra’s Bakunawa has not only won the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Contest—it has reshaped the cultural conversation around ...

Ibarra sees the Bakunawa and its banishment from society as a metaphor for the way that Filipino history, art and culture as a whole is often shunned and cast aside by the mainstream.

Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and composer Susie Ibarra have won Pulitzer Prizes this year in the arts, while the Washington Post wins for coverage of ...

In the wake of Nikki Giovanni’s passing on Monday ... elitist practices of Black Arts leaders like Amiri Baraka. She was gracious: One night after a poetry festival in 2019, I watched her ...

Mayberry said Black artists of today can continue Giovanni’s legacy of merging art and activism by realizing “their expression is a statement of revolution.” Nikki Giovanni, author of ...

Giovanni was among 25 Black women Winfrey honored at her “Legends Ball” in 2005. The three-day event at Winfrey’s home celebrated women in art, entertainment and civil rights, including Maya ...

Nikki Giovanni’s contribution to uplifting the Black Arts Movement and bringing it where it is today cannot go unnoticed. The legendary poet’s works were more than enough to bring out the zeal ...

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has died. She was 81.

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet, activist and leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has died. The author died on Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Va., following her third ...