When Amanda Gorman stepped up to the podium at President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration ceremony, Capitol Hill fell silent. The 22-year-old then made history as she delivered a passionate reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb,” becoming the sixth — and youngest ever — inaugural poet. Wearing a caged bird ring as … Continued

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