Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

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The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

But it was Maya, the nickname her older brother gave her, that eventually stuck. She took the surname Angelou, a version of her Greek American ex-husband’s name, while working at San Francisco ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, poet, activist, singer, actress and speaker. During her long and varied career she worked as a journalist in Africa, toured the world as an ...

On Tuesday, legendary writer Maya Angelou died at age 86. One of the most famous African American writers to emerge in the 20th century, Angelou was a poet, playwright, and great orator.

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet's intellectual property from his father and has bankrupted a company the two set up to manage her legacy, the father claims in ...

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration ... unthreatening icons of resilience or kindness. Angelou’s full career resists this reductive framing. She participated in the civil rights ...

Includes scenes of Dr. Angelou in the studio discussing "positive Africanisms": children's games, dance, poetry, religion and the blues. Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black! is available to ...

Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black! is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

Picture books are the perfect bridge for new readers and little ones who are so excited to connect to those magical marks on a page. This new crop is exceptional, and they are as beautiful to look ...