During the ‘Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America’ at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Nicki Minaj read Maya Angelou’s poem ‘Still I Rise’. She reads with a calm, empowered tone, and the video is hard to watch without feeling the force of the words. Nicki has a track on her earliest mixtape, ‘Beam Me Up Scotty’, named “Still I Rise” as a tribute to the poem, so of course she was the prime candidate to read it out.