(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated voices in modern American literature, used her poetry as a profound medium to explore themes of identity, resilience, love, and the ...

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

Dr Maya Angelou was chosen as an official poet by Bill Clinton and the UN ... The phrase was traced to a children's author named Joan Walsh Anglund, and her 1967 book, A Cup of Sun - though ...

A collection of ruri (poems) by Maya Angelou is the latest book to be translated into te reo Māori. He kupu nā te māia is the 13th te reo book from Kotahi Rau Pukapuka, which aims to eventually ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...