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Turning 75 this month, Maya Angelou has led many lives. She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six ... it was her family, not her varied career, that she most ...

In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

Ghana commemorated author and poet, Maya Angelou with a 350-cedi stamp showing a happy portrait of Angelou issued on March 25, 1998.

John Flemister, 61, worked the front desk at several residential buildings and was heading home from work Saturday evening ...

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an ...

Chicago spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses the spiritual foundations, hip hop influences, and roots that shape her ...

“The next morning, Judy Feiffer called a friend of hers at Random House and said, ‘You know the poet Maya Angelou ... in Chicago who goes to stay with family in Mississippi, where she and ...

Beyond any loss to human sensibilities, is the enormous loss to nature, and our ability to fight climate change ...

But most Black people haven’t had the opportunity to get a break from either political worries or racism in the United States. Data from Pew Research Center shows that only 49% of Black Americans have ...

Her legacy lives on in the lives she touched and the family she nurtured. At her shiva, her great-nephew, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, read Maya Angelou’s poem “When Great Trees Fall,” capturing ...

Fair, who passed away in Staten Island on March 18, was known for her dedication to helping others both professionally and ...