Poet and author Maya Angelou died in her North Carolina home on Wednesday. She was an actress, singer and dancer who later became best known for her poetry and books. Her works dealt with family, ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH – An autobiography by renowned author Maya Angelou has become the latest book in Orange County to be challenged as unfit for school libraries. Judy Ahrens, a former Westminster School ...

It might have been the first time in the history of Symphony Hall that a writer got a standing ovation just for walking onstage. That's what happened Friday night when poet and autobiographer Maya ...

What makes Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” so remarkable lies in how it transcends the world of Southern blacks to speak to people of all races, ethnicities, ages and ...

Legendary American poet and author Maya Angelou, whose autobiographical works often centered on racism and civil rights, has died at age 86. The renowned writer became a literary sensation with her ...

The coin honoring the late poet and civil rights activist went into circulation Monday and pays tribute to her 1970 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is making history once ...

Maya Angelou, the multitalented storyteller known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, died Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86. Angelou was best known ...

Perhaps best known for her seminal autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is one of the most celebrated literary minds in history, whose poetry and prose has touched generations ...

Maya Angelou — revered poet, singer and author — is now the first Black woman to be depicted on the U.S. quarter. Angelou spent ten years of her childhood in Stamps, (Lafayette County) in South ...

Poet and author Maya Angelou died in her North Carolina home on Wednesday. She was an actress, singer and dancer who later became best known for her poetry and books. Her works dealt with family, ...