*National poet laureate
Amanda Gorman graces TIME magazine’s special issue honoring Black culture and the arts, dubbed the second Black Renaissance.
The publication collaborated with author, educator, and activist
Ibram X. Kendi to curate the project which features a conversation between Gorman and Michelle Obama.
“We’re living in an important moment in Black art because we’re living in an important moment in Black life,” Gorman said to Obama during their discussion. “Whether that’s looking at what it means politically to have an African-American President before Trump, or looking at what it means to have the Black Lives movement become the largest social movement in the United States.