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

There’s a notion that diverse children’s toys or diverse children’s books are only important for children from diverse ...

Maya Angelou sadly ... plea for unity in the black community during the turbulent 1980s. Those performing in the video wouldn’t have been born when Angelou penned the words but their power ...

Episode 1 of a 10-part TV series made by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society.

Maya wrote unashamedly about her troubled past 2. She was the first black woman to work as a conductor on San Francisco’s cable cars At 16, Angelou decided she wanted to be a cable car conductor ...

Episode 2 of a 10-part TV series made by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society.

From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... the first black woman in history to do so.

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1993. Credit - Larry Morris—The Washington Post via Getty Images The flattening of Angelou in ...