| Shaimaa Saied |
An American actress, poet and writer, born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She has published seven autobiographies, five books, several collections of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, films and television series. Her career spanned more than fifty years, and she received dozens of awards, in addition to receiving more than thirty honorary doctorates. She is famous for a series of autobiographical writings that focus on her childhood and early experiences in adolescence.
She studied at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was active in the civil rights movement. She worked with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. In 1993, she recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. She died on May 28, 2014.
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