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*(Via LA Times) – On the morning of April 4, 1968, Maya Angelou was in her New York City apartment kitchen, making all her favorite dishes — Texas chili with no beans, baked ham, candied yams and pineapple upside-down cake — in preparation for her 40th birthday celebration later that evening.
Then her friend Dolly arrived, looking grief-stricken. Dolly broke the news: Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot in Memphis. He was dead.
When the truth finally struck her, Angelou ran out of her apartment and, with her neighbors, walked to Harlem to mourn King’s death, according to her biography written by Donna Brown Agins.
“Life stopped for me for a few days. Just terrible,” Angelou said in a 2014 interview with Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos. “I couldn’t believe that this great man’s great dreams — great dreamer, this person who dared to love everybody — could be killed before he could realize his dream.”
For years, Angelou, who died in 2014, did not celebrate her own birthday — a painful reminder of King’s death. But for over 30 years, she and King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, would meet, call or send each other flowers every April 4.
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