In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

Turning 75 this month, Maya Angelou has led many lives. She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six ... it was her family, not her varied career, that she most ...

Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir, published 50 years ago, launched a revolution in literature and social awareness. Illustration by TS Abe; Photographic reference: Corbis Outline Maya Angelou ...

The translator who has translated into French the latest collection of poems by the late US civil rights icon Maya Angelou has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the pressure of getting it right.

The translator who has translated into French the latest collection of poems by the late US civil rights icon Maya Angelou ...

Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

Maya Angelou sits in her hotel room, reliving her past and writing her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings". A ...

Golden, and accompanied by Linda Holzer, classical pianist. A Celebration of Southern Poetry honoring Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, with special guest actress, writer and poet Ciera Payton ...

Angelou understood that poetry could offer not just commentary, but clarity, and “In a Time” embodies that gift. “Our Grandmothers” is Maya Angelou’s offering to ancestral memory.