A 22-year-old poet who overcame a speech impediment became one of the highlights of the inauguration ceremony as she celebrated being a “skinny black girl” who could now “dream of becoming president”.
Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, called for Americans to “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” as she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” to the dignitaries gathered at the Capitol.
