Let’s explore how Maya Angelou’s poems can serve as an educational resource for children, by highlighting some of her most impactful works. Poetry has always been able to turn our emotions and ...

Words hold the power to move, inspire, and connect people. Maya Angelou wrote poems and essays exuding confidence and dignity. “Still I Rise” and “Phenomenal Woman” are a couple of her ...

Published in 1978, Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups ...

She then ended the speech by reciting an extract from Still I Rise, crediting it to “my favourite poet, Maya Angelou." When he decided to have a poem read as part of his inauguration as US ...

Includes scenes of Dr. Angelou in the studio discussing "positive Africanisms": children's games, dance, poetry, religion and the blues. Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black! is available to ...

Renowned author Dr. Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86 ... Many were introduced to Dr. Angelou in 1993, when she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's 1993 ...

Fans of Maya Angelou are remembering the poet laureate with some of her most memorable quotes and best pieces of advice. The famed writer, educator and civil rights activist was found dead ...

Maya Angelou examines the influence of African American ... Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar wrote that poem in the late 1800s. And it was true for many, many years. We wore the masks.

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...