Gary Younge on Maya Angelou: with her passing, America has not just lost a talented Renaissance woman and gifted raconteur. It has lost a connection to its recent past that had helped it make sense of its present. At a time when so many Americans seek to travel color blind, and free from the baggage of the nations racial history, here she stood, tall, straight and true: a black woman from the south intimately connected to the transformative people and politics who helped shape much of Americas racial landscape. via Guardian culture
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:59:29 +0000
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