Yesterday marked the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Senator Cory Booker gave a speech at the event that featured quotes from the famous “And Still I Rise” poem by the late Maya Angelou.
The video embedded above features Booker’s full speech. Click here to read the poem in its entirety.
This poem was published in her 1978 poetry collection. Follow this link to watch a video with Angelou’s own reading of “And Still I Rise.”