Quote of the day by Maya Angelou: 'You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be...' - First Black woman to recite an inaugural po…

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, overcame childhood trauma and racism to become a celebrated writer. Her ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

University: Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86

NEW YORK - Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, has died. She was 86. Her death ...
Post-Bulletin

Maya Angelou, who vividly detailed the black experience, dies at 86

Maya Angelou was a diva of American culture: an actress, singer, dancer and film director as well as an essayist and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated poet, whose mainstream magnetism led her to write verses ...
The Atlantic

Poet, Activist, and Author Maya Angelou Has Died

Maya Angelou, the iconic author and activist whose career spanned decades, has died at the age of 86, her publicist confirmed on Wednesday morning. Angelou found in home this morning, in Winston-Salem ...