Washington Post: “Amanda Gorman clearly has talent. But there’s more to her meteoric rise.”

By Nneka McGuire

“Beyoncé is the only other person who’s had back-to-back performances with a presidential inauguration and then a Super Bowl presentation. So that’s basically where Amanda Gorman is now being placed in a kind of pantheon of great Black women artists and performers,” Tillet said. “And I think she rightly has earned her place there.”

But there’s a caveat. Gorman absolutely deserves her flowers, said Tillet, who is also co-founder of A Long Walk Home Inc., a nonprofit that uses art to end violence against girls and women, but the reverence Gorman’s receiving doesn’t extend to those who resemble her.