Legendary American poet and author Maya Angelou, whose autobiographical works often centered on racism and civil rights, has died at age 86. The renowned writer became a literary sensation with ...

Maya Angelou, poet in residence at Wake Forest University, talks about the poem she wrote for President Clinton's inauguration from her office in Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 16, 1996.

Maya loved the idea, as she shared my belief that America was losing touch with the best of its humanity and felt that our spiritual lives were exciting fodder for a talk show.

Maya Angelou, poet in residence at Wake Forest University, talks about the poem she wrote for President Clinton's inauguration from her office in Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 16, 1996.

There was no space that Maya Angelou did not claim as her own, and in doing so she claimed it for all of us. We read those memoirs and encountered our own sense of possibility. She never seemed to ...

Read Hilton Als’s essay about Maya Angelou, “Songbird,” which appeared in the August 5, 2002, issue. Photograph of Angelou, taken in 1974, by Wayne Miller/Magnum.

Did you know that "Dr. Maya Angelou" was neither a physician nor the holder of a real Ph.D? ... If you want to debate what Oppenheimer calls “title inflation,” fine, let’s talk.

In the Bob Schieffer interview (see below), in her trademark storyteller voice, Maya describes how her parents fell in love, or lust, or “fell in something,” but in a few years figured out ...

Maya Angelou squashes her beef with Common over the N-word on "The Dreamer/The Believer." Common Vh1 Divas 2011 1 By Essence · Updated October 28, 2020 ...

Maya Angelou’s Poems Help to Empower Children’s Self-Confidence . ... talk about significant events such as the Jim Crow Era, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Oprah’s OWN is set to honor Dr. Maya Angelou this Sunday with a special lineup. The network will air Angelou’s Super Soul Sunday and Oprah’s Master Class episodes and her appearances on The ...