Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...

Maya Angelou died today at age 86. May 28, 2014— -- The celebrated poet and activist Maya Angelou died today at age 86, leaving behind a body of work filled with wisdom and insight. Angelou rose ...

Though Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at the age of 86, was best known for her contributions to literature, she was a true renaissance woman who left a considerable small-screen legacy as a writer, ...

Maya Angelou has been heralded as the voice of a generation — and not just for the books and poems she contributed to our high school required reading lists, or the Pinterest "Words of Inspiration" ...

On Monday, the US Mint announced that a new quarter featuring the iconic poet, memoirist and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has begun shipping as part of the American Women Quarters Program. This ...

This week, the United States Postal Service came in for a full news cycle’s worth of ridicule after it was pointed out, by the Washington Post, that the agency’s new Maya Angelou stamp featured a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, an icon of American literature, has left an indelible mark on history, particularly Black ...

Inspired by Maya Angelou? Read your favorite Angelou quote on video and send it to CNN iReport. Angelou’s legacy is twofold. She leaves behind a body of important artistic work that influenced several ...

In an exclusive clip from American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou's son Guy Johnson claims Pearl Bailey refused to let his mother understudy her in Hello Dolly! Dave Quinn is ...

Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at the age of 86, was known for many things throughout her life: her wisdom, her acting, her indefatigable civil rights activism. But more than anything else, Angelou ...

Stars like Oprah Winfrey, Alicia Keys, Laverne Cox, America Ferrera and Martina McBride contributed to the Google Doodle reading, as well as Angelou's son Guy Johnson Maya Angelou was not only a poet ...

Maya Angelou spent much of April 4,1968, in her New York City apartment kitchen, making all her favorite dishes — Texas chili with no beans, baked ham, candied yams and pineapple upside-down cake — in ...