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 ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies. Her unique career – which included work as a dancer, singer, actress, composer, activist, teacher ...

Unearthed by San Francisco State film archivist, Alex Cherian in 2009 -- Maya Angelou wrote and produced a 10-part series for KQED called "Blacks, Blues, Black!", which aired in the summer of 1968.

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ... Native American heroine Pocahontas was in a group picture on the $20 bill. On coins, Sacagawea, a Native ...

Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, she lived in Alabama and California in her early years ...

Closed for renovations since October 1, the Maya Angelou Branch Library will reopen in late February. Exciting updates await!