Libby Sheard has found much to be grateful for over the years, from the idyllic childhood she enjoyed in Little Rock, a few doors down from the home she lives in today, to a job she loved and retired from earlier this month.
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State Sen. Linda Chesterfield; Jamee McAdoo and her late sibling Norel McAdoo; and Rupa Dash were honored during the Celebrating Maya@96 10th Anniversary Spirit of Maya Awards Luncheon and Celebration. The fundraiser for the Celebrate! Maya Project was held April 11 in the Great Hall of Little Rock s Clinton Presidential Center. The luncheon served as an observation, a week later, of what would have been the 96th birthday of poet Maya Angelou, who passed away in 2014.
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Poet and playwright Patricia Spears Jones will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in May from the Porter Fund, an organization supporting the literary arts in Arkansas.