Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist And Singular Storyteller, Dies At 86 : The Two-Way Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir ...

Angelou described the relationship between Coretta Scott King and her husband, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., as loving. "He loved her," Angelou said.

Literary giant Maya Angelou (c.) remembered songwriter Valerie Simpson (l., with her late husband Nick Ashford) in her will.

Celebrated author and poet Maya Angelou had a deep appreciation for African literature. Her endorsements have brought to the ...

Riffing off her ex-husband’s last name and her brother’s nicknames for her, she began performing as Maya Angelou. She won a role in a touring production of “Porgy and Bess” and performed ...

The late Maya Angelou began her professional career as a singer. Released in 1957, her one and only album, "Miss Calypso," featured a cover photo of the future poetry giant in an alluring red ...

Maya Angelou lived a life that epitomized one of her most famous poems, “Still I Rise” – “You may write me down in history/With your bitter, twisted lies/You may tread ...

Author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Here are eight facts you might not have know about this cultural icon.

Maya Angelou with her then husband, Paul Du Feu (via Pinterest) Angelou would later tell all who asked that she and Paul married three times because they loved each other that much.

Author and poet Maya Angelou, who spent her formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area becoming a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died.

Oprah Winfrey said Maya Angelou's book 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' helped her process childhood sexual abuse during a speech at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in ...