The children’s book illustrator grounds his work in a Cincinnati and Midwest aesthetic that authors from Barack Obama to Madonna to Amanda Gorman love being associated with.
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Kanti Bajpai is Professor and Wilmar Chair of Asian Studies, and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore LESS. MORE
Joe Biden is finally President of the United States. A passable speaker, he nonetheless made an inspiring inauguration speech. No Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru has done better. As India continues to embrace majoritarianism, Biden was urging inclusivity – and putting it on display with two black women on the stage with him in leading roles: his vice-president and the Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.
Gorman, the 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate, commanded the spotlight during her passionate reading on Inauguration Day. Author: Tony Black Updated: 5:28 PM PST January 21, 2021
For six minutes on Wednesday at President Joe Biden’s Inauguration, all eyes were on Amanda Gorman. The 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate combined a message of hope and promise as she read, even as we grieved, we grew.
In less than a day, Gorman gained more than a million social media followers.
“The fact that she s actually dominating my feed on LinkedIn, that we re not even talking about Twitter or Facebook, but LinkedIn, the professional network, tells you how much she s resonated with people across the spectrum,” said Hanson Hosein from the University of Washington’s Communication Leadership said.