{"id":21258,"date":"2014-05-28T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=21258"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:51:52","slug":"maya-angelou-dead-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/maya-angelou-dead-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Angelou dead at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"
Poet, author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.<\/p>\n
One of America’s leading literary voices of the last 50 years, Angelou was best-known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.<\/p>\n
It was the first of seven volumes of autobiography that traced her life from a childhood of abuse and oppression in the Deep South in the 1930s.<\/p>\n
The news was confirmed to the BBC by the mayor’s office in her home town of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Mayor Allen Joines said he was “very sad of her passing”.<\/p>\n
Her poetry collections included Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie (1971), And Still I Rise (1978), Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987), and I Shall Not Be Moved (1990).<\/p>\n
Her poem On the Pulse of the Morning, written for US President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration, sold more than a million copies in the US.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poet, author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. One of America’s leading literary voices of the last 50 years, Angelou was best-known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It was the first of seven volumes of autobiography that traced her life from a childhood of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[6,1074],"yoast_head":"\n