When Amanda Gorman, the young woman who became world famous with her poem ‘The hill we climb’, walked home on Friday evening, she was followed and checked by a security guard. It’s hard to separate that from her black complexion.
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‘This is the reality for black young women: One minute you are an icon, the next a threat’, tweeted the poet who stole the hearts of the Americans at the inauguration of the US president Joe Biden and acted as first poet at the Superbowl.
