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Read Loving the Dead ... of identity and acceptance. Maya Angelou, a prolific writer, poet, and activist, spent a significant part of her life in North Carolina. Her groundbreaking autobiography, I ...

Even before the 9-foot tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou was lifted into place and bolted onto its stone base, Berkeley artist Lava Thomas seemed finally able to exhale. After a more than ...

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Reading these ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) is the first of her autobiographies, and is an unsettling and gripping retelling of the first seventeen years of her life. It is this novel ...

In the meantime, meet the women on your quarters—from Maya Angelou ... “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” She published over 30 other works, including memorable poems like “Still I Rise” and “On the ...

This first instalment of writer, poet and activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography was published in 1969. Even if you’ve read it before, the fact that this is narrated by Angelou, who died in 2014, makes ...

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You know something is wrong in America when beloved schoolteachers and librarians become the target of hate groups.