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A new school will be named after the late poet Dr. Maya Angelou in the state of New Jersey.

According to nj.com  &  elev8.hellobeautiful.com, the Jersey City, NJ school board voted to name the $54.6 million school building for the celebrated writer and civil rights activist.

Angelou was chosen over President Barack Obama and Fletcher Walker (Parent Teacher Association (PTA) President).

Walker led a parent-teacher group that lobbied for the new building.

Angelou is perhaps best known as the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” a 1969 account of her childhood in the Jim Crow-era South. She read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the swearing-in of Bill Clinton as the nation’s 42nd President in 1993.

Dr. Angelou died in 2014 at age 86.