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

A new survey shows that writer, poet, actor, musician, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou is among influential names on a list of two hundred women. This St. Louis Legend is named among the ...

Maya Angelou was a renowned poet, author, and activist who dedicated her life to fighting for civil rights and equality. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928, Angelou experienced firsthand the ...

about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written ... with the South African civil rights activist Vusumzi Make. Soon after, Mandela was imprisoned and the pair weren’t in contact again ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story ... A staunch advocate for civil rights and social justice, Angelou's words carry a weighty significance in addressing the ...

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 ...

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 activist and above all a writer.

She taught me that artist could also mean activist and the two were ... The more I read about Maya Angelou’s work with civil rights, especially her work with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King ...

“In addition, I have an admiration for the profound words and enduring legacy of Maya Angelou. Her wisdom and resilience have served as a guiding light for me, especially in times of uncertainty ...

Tameka Ellington has been hired as the first curator of Black history at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton ...

Dr. Maya Angelou has been teaching at Wake Forest for the past 30 years. The 84-year-old writer has been an Inaugural Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, playwright, director ...