The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Maya Angelou, a renowned novelist, actress, writer, poet, and civil rights activist, left behind a legacy and poignant pieces readers can revisit forever, with her work discussing identity, ...

Few individuals have left an impact as great as Maya Angelou across so many sectors. Best known for her autobiographical ...

Maya Angelou ... “I have found out, along with reading your prose and your poetry and then especially after hearing you the other night,” Stanfeld later wrote to Angelou, “that you are ...

And the person finally said to me like, ‘No, like Robert Frost and Maya Angelou ... writing the poem was you don’t want a Hallmark poem,” Blanco said. “But you still want a little bit of critique and ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... even in the brief annals of inaugural poets, they have. Maya Angelou reading ‘On the Pulse of Morning ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

This is my last quarter at UC Irvine. It feels weird to say that out loud, or in our case dear reader, to announce it into ...

But this is a time when ... Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my back and face your distant destiny, but seek no haven in my shadow.” — Maya Angelou ...

In a Time article years ... Origin–an homage to Maya Angelou, who’d also worn gifts from Oprah as the inaugural poet at Clinton’s 1993 ceremony. The youth poet laureate captured everyone’s attention ...