(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 ... “Because I could not stop for Death - / He kindly stopped for me - / The Carriage held but just Ourselves ...

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

[Note: Business Insider has reached out to Bill and Hillary Clinton and have not yet recieved a response regarding Dr. Maya Angelou's death ... when she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning ...