Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton – affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president – asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new ...

Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” – which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose the author’s girlhood in the Jim Crow South – was ...

"I wish I was writing a poem right this minute," the tireless Dr. Maya Angelou told The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith. It's that dedication to her art that makes the legendary poet the perfect ...

Maya Angelou’s life and writings deeply affected many people. One of them was Tim Rhoze, artistic director of Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. Rhoze celebrates the late poet and activist in his ...

Maya Angelou, the 85-year-old American poet who first met Nelson Mandela in the 1960s, composed “His Day is Done” for her friend, who died Thursday. Here, she recites the tribute in a video posted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s only fitting that the first week of U.S. National Poetry Month in April coincides with what would have been the 90th birthday ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The first time I saw Maya Angelou in person was in the late 1990s in New York. Suzanne, ...

On April 23, 2014, director John Singleton reflected upon coming to Maya Angelou for guidance while working on his film "Poetic Justice," and how Angelou influenced him and Tupac on the set of the ...

{{youtube:medium|N33ZgZiE4cE, Maya Angelou's 1993 speech at opening convocation}} Joanne Braxton and Maya Angelou met in California nearly 40 years ago, sharing a bond that a sensitive Hollywood ...

Just days after her death, Maya Angelou disappeared from outside an Orchard Street corner store—then reappeared to “wake up” and inspire the Dixwell neighborhood. The appearance took place Monday at ...

Acclaimed American poet and author Maya Angelou, who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86. Angelou “passed quietly" at her ...