What happens when you put Maya Angelou's poems over a blues beat? How about the sounds of hip-hop? The results are stomping rhythms paired with powerful lyrics. Producers RoccStarr and Shawn Rivera of ...

Even after Maya Angelou’s death, the late great poet, activist, singer and actress' influence on the arts continues to live on with the release of her posthumous album, ‘Caged Bird Songs.’ Producer ...

The legacy Maya Angelou left when she died earlier this year is immeasurable. Not only did she leave behind abundant and award-winning poetry, but she also left the world with the gift of music.

Her most famous work took its title from “Sympathy,” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. And it seems fitting, after Maya Angelou’s death last week at the age of 86, to recall some of what the poet said: ...

Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird... Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist And Singular Storyteller, ...

The caged bird sings of freedom — and a judge sang Friday of probation for a man accused of trying to smuggle Guyanese songbirds to New York. Brooklyn Federal Judge William Kuntz recited lines from ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The poetry nook of this bureau reported last week that the first home of St. Louis-born poet Maya Angelou is for sale. And now ...

It was in a seventh-grade classroom in South Central Los Angeles that I was first introduced to Maya Angelou. I still remember how the words constructed lyrical melodies that bounced like notes, ...

In her lifetime, Maya Angelou released the 1957 LP Miss Calypso, joined Ashford & Simpson for 1996’s Been Found and won three Grammys, all for spoken-word releases. This May, she died at age 86, but ...

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