Alma Adams tweeted the following:
"She detailed her tumultuous, tragic childhood in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Her literary work was acclaimed for its honesty and defense of Black culture, and she became known as "the black woman's poet laureate.""Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Alma Adams:
"Maya Angelou was the first Black poet to deliver a recitation at a presidential inauguration; the performance won a Grammy.She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and unafraid to be political. She worked on stage and behind the camera."Read on Twitter"Read on Twitter
"In the 1980s, Angelou became a professor at @WakeForest University in @CityofWS, where she would spend the rest of her life. She was a person of limitless talents, and I will always be proud that the first bill I passed into law honors her work.#BlackHistoryMonth #SayBlack"Read on Twitter"Read on Twitter
"On this day in 2011, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Maya Angelou.Angelou was born in The Lou St. Louis, Missouri in 1928.#BlackHistoryMonth #SayBlack"Read on Twitter
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