Maya Angelou: How to Find Your Voice
Content warning: this episode includes descriptions of childhood sexual abuse, trauma and violence, racism, abandonment, and mental health struggles.
In 1993, a 64 year old woman stepped up to a podium and read a poem to 20 million people at Bill Clinton's inauguration. Almost none of them knew she hadn't spoken a word for nearly five years of her childhood. Not because she couldn't. Because she believed her voice had killed a man.
This is the story of how Marguerite Johnson became Maya Angelou.
It starts on a train platform in 1931. She's three, her brother is four, and they're wearing tags…
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