Amanda Gorman’s journey is stellar! Her ability to overcome her slippery speech serves as an excellent example to the multicultural children of America. Bilingual kids often have difficulty enunciating words because they hear their parents, who were brought up in India, pronounce words differently. The pressure to code-switch in order to be understood at home and in school may be challenging. Gorman is an excellent role model for all of us because she makes her words matter and her voice heard.
Now a beautiful 22-year-old ambassador of poetry, Amanda Gorman, raised in West L.A. by a school teacher, struggled with a speech disability. She had difficulty enunciating her “Rrrrrrs”! She faced her challenges head-on. She used the power of the written word to formulate and strengthen her thoughts. She rehearsed with full vigor and powerful poetry gushed out like a wild cataract! She became the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles at 16. At 19, while at Harvard college, she was named
Star Jones & Marquis Who s Who Releases Inaugural African American Catalysts For Change List
Executive Editor Star Jones Presents 50 Honorees to Celebrate Black History Month
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UNIONDALE, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Marquis Who s Who (MWW), the world s leading biographical publisher for the last 120 years, presents their
inaugural African American Catalysts for Change list just in time to kick off Black History Month. Headed by
MWW CEO Erica Lee, the list was curated by American lawyer, award winning media personality, and women s and diversity advocate
Star Jones, who as Executive Editor showcases a total of 50 honorees, highlighting activists, entertainers, politicians, government officials, sports stars and more.
I am not pretending to believe that this new administration will be able to solve all of the nation’s problems and catapult us into some shiny utopian future, but at times it may just be appropriate to celebrate the little things.
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Mayne, 38, is a graduate of the Ghanatta College of Art and Design. He completed the work in just five days.
The painting is described as a visceral assemblage of diverse facets of Ghanaian and African sociocultural experiences evoking political, emotional and practically psychoanalytical connections and cut-aways weaving private and public space realities unbound by time .
Singh, 31, said of the donation: This work must be in an Institution, it is a celebration of women, a celebration of Black women, a celebration of hope. It is especially meaningful to donate it to Harvard as that is Amanda Gorman’s Alma Mater.