Maya Angelou: poet, singer, dancer, painter, Grammy winner — and now, hip-hop artist. The new album Caged Bird Songs takes its title from Angelou's 1969 book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. One of ...

Maya Angelou, who overcame poverty and harsh circumstances to become a leading American poet and noevlist, died Wednesday at age 86 in her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. File 2008 - The Associated Press ...

Oprah Winfrey is co-producing a video for one of the tracks, “Harlem Hopscotch,” that will premiere later this month on OWN By Gail Mitchell, Billboard Maya Angelou 1996 - H 2014 Released by Smooch ...

"What are you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay…" With these words—from a poem that she stumbled over during a church recital—Maya Angelou opens her autobiography and conveys the diminished ...

CBC News reporter Tashauna Reid chose Maya Angelou's autobiographical poetry collection I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — the first work by a first Black female author and poet she had ever read. "At ...

This September, Seattle is on a tear for James Baldwin. Earlier this month, The Williams Project staged a scorching production of his “Blues for Mister Charlie” at Emerald City Bible Fellowship and ...