“I was 15, I was 15 years old when I read my first diverse book, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and the whole world fell away from me.” Related: Oprah Calls Salary for Original ...

BBC Arts presents a selection of complete BBC programmes, available on demand, featuring the revered American poet and author ... In the summer of 2002 Maya Angelou joined James Naughtie for ...

A young Maya Angelou is enchanted by a life-changing performance of Porgy and Bess. 4. As a young woman she worked as a pimp and a prostitute In her 1974 book, Gather Together In My Name ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black ... Janet Yellen said in a statement on Monday. Angelou - an author and social activist - died in 2014 at the age ...