Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many different forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear as ordinary as a woman with natural hair perfectly coiffed and a ...

The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) and Creative Philadelphia held a special reception at City Hall celebrating the opening of a new exhibition Friday honoring the museum’s 10th anniversary, “Life Doesn’t ...

Chicago spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses the spiritual foundations, hip hop influences, and roots that shape her ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...

Happy Birthday to the late, great mother of wisdom, Ms. Maya Angelou. The writer, poet and singer would have been 97 years ...

Maya Angelou didn’t hold back. From defying racism to reclaiming womanhood, her fiercest words still cut through noise and ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for ...

Ghana commemorated author and poet, Maya Angelou with a 350-cedi stamp showing a happy portrait of Angelou issued on March 25, 1998.

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and ...