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Maya Angelou: Remembering a literary giant

Poet and author Maya Angelou died Wednesday at her home North Carolina at age 86. Angelou became an actress, a movie director, producer and won three Grammys. Her poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” read at Bill Clinton’s 1993 inauguration, became a bestseller. In 2011, President Barack Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Michelle Miller reports.
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