# RIP Maya Angelou

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722 "2017-05-30T15:47:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/1 "2017-05-30T15:47:30Z")

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[NPR report](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/28/147369802/maya-angelou-poet-activist-and-singular-storyteller-dies-at-86)

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> Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/2 "2017-05-30T15:48:35Z")

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Three years ago…

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/3 "2017-05-30T15:52:27Z")

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Shit. I missed the year on the date. (And I heard an interview recently, and had forgotten or didn’t know she was dead.)

Reporting this for closure.  
ETA: :smack:

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/4 "2017-05-30T15:56:09Z")

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Now my wife is bummed out all over again.

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/5 "2017-05-30T15:58:33Z")

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Well? You people have had three years to compose an appropriate eulogy, so let’s hear it.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-maya-angelou/787722/6 "2017-05-30T16:06:05Z")

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Closed as old news.