Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.

Headlines flooded my timelines, praying for Dr. Angelou to RIP, young photos of her littered Instagram and collectively, the world paid their respects to the fallen icon.

Dr. Maya Angelou's Life In Pictures Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the iconic poet Dr. Maya Angelou.

Just shy of the five-year anniversary of her passing, author and activist Maya Angelou has gone viral. Recently, an interview from 1990 has emerged of the poet correcting a young woman, who ...

Maya Angelou died Wednesday at age 86 after a lifetime of literary trailblazing and achievement. In 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings brought her international recognition for life in the Jim ...

Hair done in a fresh press and curl, dressed in my peach-and-white church outfit, I spoke the poem from memory. By then I was 12 and had graduated to Maya Angelou 's work from that of Langston Hughes.

Infamous Internet star Sharkeisha confuses Maya Angelou with Rosa Parks in a RIP tweet and pays for it dearly with ridicule by her followers on Twitter.

It’s never too young to be inspired by Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf and the “daring original” Ruth Krauss.

In a moving tribute to Maya Angelou on Saturday, former president Bill Clinton said that her greatest gift during her action-packed lifetime was paying attention to life around her and sharing it ...

Staten Island's young SHARP artists look at Maya Angelou, Eric Garner at Snug Harbor (photos & video) ...

Young and her family consider Dr. Angelou a dear friend and a part of their family. They’re elated that the Maya Angelou Teen Center, which is more than three years in the making, is coming to ...

Dr. Angelou celebrated her 82nd birthday in 2010 with a garden party at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Friends like director Lee Daniels were in attendance.