(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated voices in modern American literature, used her poetry as a profound medium to explore themes of identity, resilience, love, and the ...

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 ...

Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets of New York, Paris and London? Never before have we been so attentive on the morning commute, our eyes darting around the ...

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 ...

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet's ... She is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and her book of poetry, "Just Give Me a ...

Fatima Abid was among elected student leaders who chose to replace Rudyard Kipling's work with a Maya Angelou poem Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling's If in a stand against ...

On Tuesday, legendary writer Maya Angelou died at age 86. One of the most famous African American writers to emerge in the 20th century, Angelou was a poet, playwright, and great orator.

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 ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ... was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration.

Variations of this quote, the words of the late writer and activist Maya Angelou, have been making the rounds on social media over the past few weeks. Angelou, a sage to those in her inner circle ...