(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou ... often exclude women of color, Angelou celebrates her own unique beauty, which comes from inner strength, confidence, and self-assurance. The poem is a bold ...

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 ...

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

Veteran politician Rep. Barbara Lee entered public service inspired by a Black woman and may now step down, having fulfilled ...

Maya Angelou is one of the most influential women of the modern age, and her story is heading to the Broadway stage. Angelou's son Guy Johnson is working alongside producers David Michael Rich, and J.

But now they drift on the still water, / Mysterious, beautiful; / Among what rushes will they build, / By what lake’s edge or ...

Dallas Fire-Rescue crews responded to the site of the former Maya Angelou High School, at 3313 South Beckley Ave., at about 4:24 a.m. after a passerby reported seeing flames coming from the roof ...