From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... the first black woman in history to do so.

Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St Louis MO and overcame many things in order to be a world famous published author.

February is Black History Month ... “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” — Maya Angelou “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

Maya Angelou sadly ... plea for unity in the black community during the turbulent 1980s. Those performing in the video wouldn’t have been born when Angelou penned the words but their power ...

Maya Angelou reads ... her life story into a book. Angelou later told an interviewer that she initially planned to write ...