dancer, actress, and even Hollywood’s first Black director. In many ways, Angelou paved the way for future African American ...

Maya works as associate editor of a newspaper in Egypt but faces a crisis with Vus. Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar - the first black dancer they've employed. Singin' and Swingin' and ...

First transmitted in 1994, Jeremy Isaacs talks to Maya Angelou about her life as a cook, a conductor on a tram car, a ‘madam’, a prostitute, a dancer, a singer, an actress, a civil rights ...

dancer, activist, freedom fighter, professor, feminist, humanitarian, songwriter and yes, even a Muni streetcar operator. Those are all ways to describe the distinguished Maya Angelou, who was ...