400 Years Since 1619: 'The Point Is You Have a Voice': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Talks Poetry, Prose and Politics With Nikki Giovanni

They say never meet your heroes—but in some cases, they’re more fun than you imagined. That was the case when award-winning poet, educator and living literary legend Nikki Giovanni blessed The Root Presents: It’s Lit! podcast with an appearance last December as we prepared to enter what we all hoped would be a happier…