Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

Poet and essayist Maya Angelou died Wednesday at the age of 86, according to reports in her hometown of Winston-Salem and USA Today. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines told WFMY News 2 that Angelou’s ...

Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. “I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray ...

Maya Angelou, a renowned American poet who died Wednesday at 86, was a "gift to everybody," said S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth. Wentworth turned to Angelou's poetry when looking for inspiration ...

Quote of the day by Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou, a celebrated poet and activist, overcame a difficult childhood marked by ...

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First lady Michelle Obama lauded poet, orator and sage Maya Angelou as the first person who let her know she could be a strong and smart black woman, joining other famous admirers and friends in a ...

NEW YORK — Maya Angelou's story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black ...

Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird... Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist And Singular Storyteller, ...

Maya Angelou, through her life story and her words, transcended worlds. She shared her poetry with presidents (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama). She befriended some of the major ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton remembered poet, orator and sage Maya Angelou as a woman who seemed to have lived five lifetimes in one, with a sweeping experience that defined ...