CELEBRITY GENEALOGY
5 Things You Didn’t Know about Amanda Gorman’s Roots
7 min readFeb 3, 2021
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We were riveted. Even those who don’t “get” poetry understood on Inauguration Day because Amanda Gorman spoke for all of us. This self-described “skinny Black girl descended from slaves” made us gape at our screens in silence as she led us up “The Hill We Climb.”