Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

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.

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 wrote unashamedly about her troubled past 2. She was the first black woman to work as a conductor on San Francisco’s cable cars At 16, Angelou decided she wanted to be a cable car conductor ...