Maya Angelou's posthumous album is released through an assist from R&B producer Shawn Rivera. By Gail Mitchell Before her death at age 86 on May 28, Dr. Maya Angelou had signed off on a unique music ...

Maya Angelou has returned to Stamps, Arkansas and the now-abandoned general store where she grew up and came of age. While inside, the room conjures memories, and she reminisces out loud the events ...

Her most famous work took its title from “Sympathy,” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. And it seems fitting, after Maya Angelou’s death last week at the age of 86, to recall some of what the poet said: ...

It was in a seventh-grade classroom in South Central Los Angeles that I was first introduced to Maya Angelou. I still remember how the words constructed lyrical melodies that bounced like notes, ...

Activists in a southern California community are pushing author Maya Angelou’s most famous work booted from school libraries. Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” contains sexual references n ...

It is incredibly hard to say goodbye to such a luminous soul as Dr. Maya Angelou. Her words, her wisdom and her graciousness touched so many. A testament to her vast contributions to the world was ...

A radical theatrical production of a Maya Angelou literary classic is opening to New York City audiences this weekend — and the ticketing system is equally unique. The premiere of “I Know Why the ...

Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, Angelou became one of the most influential literary ...

Oprah Winfrey is co-producing a video for one of the tracks, “Harlem Hopscotch,” that will premiere later this month on OWN By Gail Mitchell, Billboard Maya Angelou 1996 - H 2014 Released by Smooch ...