Maya Angelou liked country songs by Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, and Montgomery Gentry. She wrote country songs of her own that didn’t get recorded. Angelou loved a famous country song that straddles ...

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 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.

*To celebrate the October 26th, 2018, release of their brand-new Di-Tone Records project Phenomenal Woman: The Maya Angelou Songs, the critically acclaimed duo of vocalist Capathia Jenkins and ...

Angelou left Ghana in 1964 to join Malcolm X in building the Organization of African-American Unity, and, in 1968, prepared to leave New York City to work with Martin Luther King Jr. Two calamitous ...

Maya Angelou, in a Mother's Day address to her church, encouraged mothers — particularly African-American mothers — to stand together in solidarity and win people over with love.