Dr. Maya Angelou

The Celebrate! Maya Project, and the City of Stamps are co-sponsoring a Celebration of Maya Angelou's 90th birthday from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Lafayette County High School. The event is open to the public. The featured guest is Arkansas native Patricia Healy-Glass, an award-winning Christian fiction ...

I was working with Maya Angelou over the years. But when I started to work for Oprah Radio, she became one of my hosts. So from 2006-2010, I spent three to four days in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, or in Harlem, or on the road with her. Per Oprah Winfrey, who did not want her to have to ...

The Peabody Awards board of jurors has selected nine winners in the documentary category. Among the winners are Oscar nominee Last Man in Aleppo, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise and Time: The Kalief Browder Story. Last week, the jurors unveiled the 60 nominees for the "most compelling and ...

The “Maya Angelou Garden Party” was organized by the Wake Downtown Student Ambassadors. Wake Downtown is Wake's STEM-centric urban campus adjacent to Bailey Park. Angelou, who died in 2014 at the age of 86, was Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University for more ...

21, 2008 file photo, author Maya Angelou delivers a tribute to South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the State Department in Washington. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison were among the expected speakers at a tribute to Maya Angelou, the ...

Maya Angelou spent much of April 4,1968, in her New York City apartment kitchen, making all her favorite dishes — Texas chili with no beans, baked ham, candied yams and pineapple upside-down cake — in preparation for her 40th birthday celebration. That evening, her friend Dolly arrived looking ...

On April 19, in honor of what would have been Maya Angelou's 90th birthday, the Celebrate! Maya Project will host a luncheon to honor the literary icon at the Clinton Presidential Center's Great Hall. Angelou, who died in 2014 at the age of 86, spent part of her childhood in the small South Arkansas town of ...

Wake Forest University will honor poet, actress, author and longtime professor Maya Angelou in celebration of what would have been her 90th birthday. Angelou was Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest for more than 30 years and inspired generations of students to become better ...

In the highly-anticipated new movie "A Wrinkle in Time," Oprah Winfrey stars as one of three celestial beings who help the movie's main character, Meg, travel through time to rescue her missing father. Collectively, the three, portrayed by Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon, are known as "the ...

... Time—Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic fantasy novel—which Disney is releasing this month. In a bit of typecasting, Winfrey plays Mrs. Which, a supernatural being who is the wisest entity in the world. “As I read the script, I heard the voices of Maya Angelou and Glinda the Good Witch in my head, ...

Well, in terms of sales volume and breadth of reader appeal, I postulate that Maya Angelou may well have equalled Hemingway, or even surpassed him. Why? The answer is that women did not form too large a part of the readership of the macho man Hemingway, whereas almost as many women have ...

Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 ...

Maya Angelou lived a problematic childhood becoming virtually mute for several years after a traumatic experience. After winning a scholarship for dance and theater, she worked several odd jobs before her career in performance took off in the mid-1950s. In much of the 1960s, Angelou lived abroad in ...

Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” icon Maya Angelou gave people the freedom to think about their history in a way they never had before. Dr Angelou's was a prolific life; as a singer, dancer, activist, poet, and writer she inspired generations with lyrical modern ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) - The Academy Center of the Arts will be screening a documentary on Maya Angelou for Black History Month. The documentary "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" will be shown Sunday, Feb. 18 at 3 p.m.. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary. Info. Shopping.

Since I was young, there was an understanding that the manner of the “first” call was of great importance — and, if it was to be, of long-term significance. There have been many, many “first calls,” but none with more confirmation than one I made to Maya Angelou some 25 years ago. Simply, how one ...

Two relatives of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maya Angelou will take part in a book signing and discussion at noon March 10 at the Barnes & Noble on Route 19 in Cranberry. Elliott Jones and Caylin Johnson, Ms. Angelou's grandson and great-granddaughter, will be on hand to share personal memories of ...

Dr. Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928, She would have been 90 years old this year, but she died Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem. The American poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist and educator was named Wake Forest University's first Reynolds Professor of ...