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You might even be tempted to quote it. That impulse certainly struck the US postal service, which in 2015 put it on a stamp bearing the face of Maya Angelou, the world-renowned writer, professor ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, poet, activist, singer, actress and speaker. During her long and varied career she worked as a journalist in Africa, toured the world as an ...

staying with her until her death in 2014. Maya wrote unashamedly about her troubled past 2. She was the first black woman to work as a conductor on San Francisco’s cable cars At 16, Angelou ...

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Friends and family gathered on Saturday afternoon in North Carolina to attend a memorial service in honor of the late author and activist Maya Angelou, who died on May 28 at the age of 86.

San Francisco is honoring the late poet and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou. A new monument was unveiled at the city's main library on Thursday.

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...

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Maya Angelou monument unveiled at San Francisco ... She remained a prolific writer and activist until her death in 2014. "Information helps you to see that you're not alone.

The American essayist Fredric Jameson died recently. One of his most famous quips (sometimes wrongly attributed to me) holds ...