The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Omari Hardwick has worked with some legends — he even has Denzel Washington, Snoop Dogg and Shaquille O’Neal ’s numbers saved ...

Omari Hardwick has worked with some legends — he even has Denzel Washington, Snoop Dogg and Shaquille O’Neal’s numbers saved ...

Decades later, as Angelou—then primarily known as a performer and activist—began drafting I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she decided to write in detail about the rape. This was not an ...

There she sat poised and proud in all her glory at the entrance of the gallery door . It was a vibrant Saturday morning in ...

The Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony nominee started out with Will Eisner, and his work appeared in The Village Voice for ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Several Connecticut lawmakers were harassed over a proposal to prevent books from being banned in libraries. Senator Bob Duff, Majority Leader, received a hostile and anonymous ...

Her works, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, continue to inspire readers with their themes of resilience and self-expression. 6. Gladys Knight Known as the “Empress of Soul,” Gladys ...

Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-winning polymath whose career spanned the fields of comic books, film, theater, has died. He was 95. Feiffer was born in the Bronx on Jan. 26, 1929, to Jewish parents from ...

Feiffer married and divorced Judy Sheftel, a book editor who worked on Mommie Dearest and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Jenny Allen, a writer and stand-up comic ...