(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya ... Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical representation of the African American experience. The poem contrasts the lives of two birds: one that is free ...

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 ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched ... works like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” to her plays and poetry, ...

“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf’s a flower; / But only so an hour. / Then leaf ...

You might even be tempted to quote it. That impulse certainly struck the US postal service, which in 2015 put it on a stamp bearing the face of Maya Angelou, the world-renowned writer, professor ...

[Note: Business Insider has reached out to Bill and Hillary Clinton and have not yet recieved a response regarding Dr. Maya ... to Dr. Angelou in 1993, when she read her poem "On the Pulse of ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou ... known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration.

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 ...