(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 ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Published in 1978, Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups ...

Valerie Coleman was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition this year—her second Grammy nomination ...

She then ended the speech by reciting an extract from Still I Rise, crediting it to “my favourite poet, Maya Angelou." When he decided to have a poem read as part of his inauguration as US ...

Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets of New York, Paris and London? Never before have we been so attentive on the morning commute, our eyes darting around the ...

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet's ... She is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and her book of poetry, "Just Give Me a ...

Maya Angelou sadly passed away in 2014 ... this Brooklyn based The Black Girl project performed her 1986 poem The Black Family Pledge. The piece was written as an impassioned plea for unity ...

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1993. Credit - Larry Morris—The Washington Post via Getty Images The flattening of Angelou in ...