Amanda Gorman, whose recitation of a poem about this country’s halting progress in matters of race and equality at President Biden’s inauguration vaulted her onto a national stage, said Friday she had been followed by a security guard who questioned whether she lived in her own building.
Gorman, 22, who grew up near Westchester, wrote on Twitter late Friday that the guard had “tailed” her as she walked home, then asked if she in fact lived in her building. “You look suspicious,” the guard said, according to Gorman