Maya Angelou Honors Mom, Grandmother in New Book
Dr. Maya Angelou (Photo by Ken Charnock/Getty Images) NEW YORK (AP) — Writer, actor, dancer. Activist, teacher, composer. In the melange of Maya Angelou’s 85 years is also daughter, of two women who...
View ArticleMaya Angelou to Receive Honorary Book Award
The book world is finally honoring Maya Angelou. The poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will be this year’s recipient of the Literarian Award, an honorary National Book Award for...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Accepts Mailer Center Lifetime Achievement Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Her body weak, her voice rich and strong, Maya Angelou sang, lectured and reminisced as she accepted a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the Norman Mailer Center. The...
View ArticleR.I.P. Acclaimed Author and Activist, Dr. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, acclaimed author, poet, professor and civil rights activist, has died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86. Angelou was found by her caretaker this morning,...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Honored with Forever Stamp
On Monday, Feb. 23, the United States Postal Service announced that writer, actress and poet Maya Angelou will be honored with a Forever Stamp. Though Angelou died last year at the age of 86, she...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Honors Mom, Grandmother in New Book
Dr. Maya Angelou (Photo by Ken Charnock/Getty Images) NEW YORK (AP) — Writer, actor, dancer. Activist, teacher, composer. In the melange of Maya Angelou’s 85 years is also daughter, of two women who...
View ArticleMaya Angelou to Receive Honorary Book Award
Dr. Maya Angelou poses at the the Special Recognition Event for Dr. Maya Angelou The Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait at Dr. Angelou’s home June 21, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Ken...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Accepts Mailer Center Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Maya Angelou poses for photographs during the fifth annual Norman Mailer Center benefit gala at the New York Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in New York....
View ArticleR.I.P. Acclaimed Author and Activist, Dr. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, acclaimed author, poet, professor and civil rights activist, has died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86. Angelou was found by her caretaker this morning,...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Honored with Forever Stamp
On Monday, Feb. 23, the United States Postal Service announced that writer, actress and poet Maya Angelou will be honored with a Forever Stamp. Though Angelou died last year at the age of 86, she...
View ArticlePaul Laurence Dunbar: The 19th Century Poet, Lyricist and Author Who...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) On #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first African American writers to celebrate Black speech and vernacular in...
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