January 23, 2021

At the end of a political era defined by half-truths, insults and capped by a failed insurrection, poet Amanda Gorman used her words to heal.

Her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” was a poignant recognition of the pain of America’s past — particularly its most immediate past — and the promise of its future. Wearing a bright-yellow coat and standing in front of a Capitol that just two weeks prior was overrun by enraged and radicalized Trump supporters, she offered hope, self-criticism and self-forgiveness to a country:

“And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.

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