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Maya Angelou, renaissance woman, dies at 86 by Ellen Rolfes

Photo by Flickr user York College ISLGP “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies; You may trod me in the very dirt; But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” Renaissance woman and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Angelou passed away at her home in Winston Salem, North Carolina, on Tuesday. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed Angelou’s death t…

SOURCE: PBS at 11:26AM on May 28, 2014

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