(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 ...

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 ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience, courage, and the written word ...

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 ...

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 ...

I firmly believe the political climate Americans are experiencing was brought on by Donald John Trump’s philosophy of saying ...

Powell taught poetry at the center ... Her Q and A’s with Walker Percy, Maya Angelou, Eudora Welty and other famous authors appear in her 1994 “Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern ...

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 ...

Gray, who has become a pillar in Knoxville, decided to become a surgeon as a teenager working on a farm in his rural hometown.