In June 2023, we looked for evidence to confirm that celebrated author and poet Maya Angelou had once said or written the words, "Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option." ...

Artist Emily Damstra is behind the depiction of Angelou, as well as a forthcoming quarter featuring actress Anna May Wong. The Maya Angelou American Woman Quarter, designed by Emily Damstra and ...

Google commemorates what would have been her 90th Birthday with a Doodle on its homepage. Despite falling in love with words at a young age when her voice left for five years after being sexually ...

Most know Maya Angelou, who passed away this morning at age 86, for classic, canonical poems like “Still I Rise.” And indeed, she leaves behind a broad and highly decorated body of poems—but also ...

Oprah Winfrey is celebrating her longtime friend, the late Maya Angelou, on what would have been her 95th birthday. On April 4, the media mogul penned a tender tribute to the late memoirist and poet ...

"She was a phenomenal woman whose comfort in her own skin made so many of us feel seen in ours," Michelle Obama said of the late poet Michelle Obama is celebrating Maya Angelou after the late poet ...

Faith Ringgold, “Maya’s Quilt of Life” (1989), acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border (all images courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) The pieces in the auction are but a sample of Angelou’s ...

Q: I received a quarter in change last week and it honors perhaps Winston-Salem’s most famous resident, Maya Angelou. I think this is great and wonder who else has been recognized on quarters, and ...

It was Mark Twain who once said that biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man; the biography of the man himself cannot be written. Yet, Maya Angelou did write hers. With an extravagant ...

MK Asante delivers his latest single with a personal note about the importance of the production and how it all came to be: Dr. Angelou embodied Victory … and so did J Dilla. Dilla is also a new ...