Los Angeles poet Amanda Gorman reads “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration. The former National Youth Poet Laureate and Los Angeles native is the youngest poet to write and recite her verse at a presidential inauguration. She joins a small group of inaugural poets including Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. Read the words of the poem: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-20/watch-and-read-amanda-gormans-inauguration-day-poem Read more about Amanda Gorman: https://www.l

Amanda Gorman: “There is a way to be beautiful and regal and gracious and Black at the same time. They’re not mutually exclusive. If anything, they’re mutually inclusive" Read her full interview with Michelle Obama here: https://ti.me/3aXXqoB | TIME

At TIME's "Voices of the Future" Women's Summit, Amanda Gorman talks about the relationship between her art and activism. | TIME