President
Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were in
Harlem, New York on Thursday to honor the legendary Dr. Maya Angelou
days before the release of a new documentary on the late poet’s life and
legacy.
Hillary joined Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Michelle Obama in
paying tribute to Maya Angelou at Riverside Church in New York.
Meanwhile Barack Obama and Bill Clinton celebrated Americorps in DC.
This morning, at Riverside Church, Maya Angelou will be celebrated
and remembered. Hillary is expected to join Nikki Giovanni, Toni
Morrison, and other luminaries in memorializing Dr. Angelou's legacy.
A
memorial to honor Maya Angel ou, the revered writer, poet, actress and
civil rights activist who died this year, will kick off at the Riverside
Church on Riverside Dr. near W. 120th St. on Friday at 11 a.m.
Gerald Herbert/APPoet Maya Angelou smiling in Washington.
Literary lion Maya Angelou may be gone, but her memory will live on through the day and beyond.
A
memorial celebration to honor Angelou, the revered writer, poet,
actress and civil rights activist who died this year, will kick off at
the Riverside Church on Riverside Dr. near W. 120th St. on Friday at 11
a.m.
Former first lady, senator and Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton will join a group of renowned speakers — including author
Toni Morrison and popular poet Nikki Giovanni — to pay tribute to the
legendary Angelou, who died at her home on the North Carolina campus of
Wake Forest University on May 28. She was 86.
In
this April 18, 2008 photo, then U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton holds hands
with Maya Angelou as they are applauded following a program at Wait
Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, has died, Wake Forest
University said in a statement Wednesday, May 28, 2014. She was 86. (AP
Photo/Winston-Salem Journal, Lauren Carroll)
Statement from President Clinton on the Death of Maya Angelou
Statement
With Maya Angelou’s passing, America has lost a national treasure; and Hillary and I, a beloved friend.
The poems and stories she wrote and read to us in her commanding voice were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace.
I
will always be grateful for her electrifying reading of “On the Pulse
of Morning” at my first inaugural, and even more for all the years of
friendship that followed.
Now she sings the songs the Creator gave to her when the river “and the tree and the stone were one.”
Our deepest sympathies are with Guy and his family.
Most of these were not taken during the service which was not photographed, apparently. That is Maya Angelou in the wheelchair beside the casket. The white-haired guy kissing Hillary is her HUGE FAN Orrin Hatch who tried single-handedly to nominate her to SCOTUS.
Hillary Clinton
