(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 ...

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's first autobiography, chronicling her life ...

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 ...

This Sunday the San Francisco Public Library is hosting “Echoes of Maya: A Celebration of Verse and Voice.” It's a special ...

In this sensitively rendered biography of Maya Angelou (1928–2014), the Roops describe how, early in life, “Words whirled and stories spun in Maya’s head and off her lips.” After she ...

The Maya Angelou monument, styled like a book, features a portrait of Angelou drawn by Thomas. The structure features the ...

Her poems became a gateway, leading me to other luminaries like Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, who not only spoke to the plights of Black people but spoke life into the creativity that was born ...