Google’s doodle celebrates the 87th birthday of internationally-acclaimed American poet, feminist, professor, and civil rights champion Audre Lorde In honor of US Black History Month.
Lorde was a vital figure of the Black and LGBT+ cultural movements of the 20th century and a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. ”The acclaimed poet was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents on 18 February 1934 and had her first poem: Spring, printed by Seventeen magazine when she was just 15.
Lorde earned a BA from Hunter College and a Master’s of Library Science from Columbia University in 1961 and continued writing as a librarian in the New York public schools throughout the 1960s.
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