According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, the appearance of Maya Angelou at a black history program in February 1995 drew 3,000 people to the arena at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Maya Angelou’s family has planned a private memorial service for 10 a.m. Saturday in Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel, university officials said Monday. Angelou, celebrated poet, actress and ...

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership. Maya Angelou in 1974.Credit...Wayne Miller/Magnum ...

Winston-Salem, NC -- "African-America Lives 2" uses genealogical research and DNA analysis in the study. Angelou lives in Winston-Salem. Host Henry Louis Gates Junior says the research included an ...

Maya Angelou’s Decision to Keep Her Child In an essay that originally appeared in Family Circle magazine, America's beloved poet Maya Angelou described the birth of her first and only child, a son ...