Danielle Okonta

Dec 10, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Danielle Okonta |L.A. Johnson

NEW YORK  — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81.