This is what sign language poetry, a genre rooted in the sign language tradition, looks like: a feast for the eyes.

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, poet, activist, singer, actress and speaker. During her long and varied career she worked as a journalist in Africa, toured the world as an ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary ... journalist, film director, poet and public speaker – was evidence of her conviction that anyone could develop a great range of talents ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience, courage, and the written word ...

Fatima Abid was among elected student leaders who chose to replace Rudyard Kipling's work with a Maya Angelou poem Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling's If in a stand against ...