Community | October 04, 2009 | 14 comments

Author Maya Angelou Taken to Hospital EDIT: No, she wasn't!

source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/celebrity/NATL-Author-Maya-Angelou-Taken-to-Hospital...

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"Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and poet Maya Angelou was taken to the hospital Sunday for as-yet-unknown causes, TMZ.com reported.

Angelou, 81, was in Los Angeles to be honored at the BraveHeartAwards, celebrating women who have made changes in their professional fields. Other celebrities scheduled to attend the weekend-long ceremonies were Mariel Hemingway and Courteney Cox, according to the awards' site.

Angelou gained worldwide fame with her literary activism in the Civil Rights movement and for works like "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," an autobiographical account of her childhood and early teenage years. The book recounted Angelou's experience with sexual abuse and rape at the age of 8 at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.

She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 poetry collection, "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie."

EDIT: It is now being reported that TMZ and the several other sites that reported Angelou's hospitalization were incorrect. It was even being reported that she was dead, but ...

"Contrary to TMZ report, Maya Angelou is fine, at home, & wasn't even in LA Sat nite, said her literary agent Helen Brann," Tweeted CNN Wire news editor Saeed Ahmed."

So there you go. Sorry for the fuss!
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14 comments // Author Maya Angelou Taken to Hospital EDIT: No, she wasn't!

  • earrachanam
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      earrachanam  

    • I just saw a video on CNN of Maya herself talking about the sad rumors about her hospitalization and her death. She said she had relatives from all over the world worried out of their minds that she had died. She said she felt bad for the person that started this rumor that they had such little of a life that they had to start that rumor.

    • 3 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • "Judge a person not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their charcater." Shame that she, as a civil rights activist, would add her vote to Obama's cult of personality simply because of his skin color. Obama has NO character- he's telling taxpayers to pay for abortions for poor unmarried Black and Hispanic women at Planned Parenthood clinics- whose founder was a notorious racist eugenicist who wanted to wipe Black Americans off the face of the earth. And she supports this narcissistic windbag? Sickening. What hypocrisy! It seems character or moral values means nothing to Miss Angelou. What a shame.

    • 3 years ago
  • maof4brats
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  

    • @legendaryHater

      Thanks for the link! "a panicked army of Twitter followers" is where I first heard of this, but when I googled it and it came up to have 3 or more sources, I went ahead and posted it. It was even being reported that she was dead! Was there any word from an official spokesperson that you know of?

    • 3 years ago
  • LegendaryHater
  • Lidia78
  • LegendaryHater
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      LegendaryHater  
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    • Thank all that's holy, and whatever else, she's fine. According to this, it looks like the whole TMZ thing was... I don't want to say "fake" or a "lie" but it was grossly inaccurate.

    • 3 years ago
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