Maya Angelou had a diverse career spanning five decades. First, she was a singer and dancer, then as a journalist and civil rights activist, and later as a memoirist, poet, and screenwriter.

Encouraged by Mrs Flowers, Angelou not only read and recited poetry but started to write her own poetry. Thirty years later, after several marriages and careers as a dancer, brothel-owner ...

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ... Angelou later released her first record album, Calypso Lady. Her passion for writing never diminished over the years and with a move to New York City, she joined ...

Four years later, an organizer with Take Back the Night ... from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou. Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary ... But it wasn’t until years later, in 1998, that Angelou directed her first feature film, Down in the Delta, at the age of 70.

From this ordeal, Maya would become mute for five years. She later said she felt her “voice killed that man.” During her silence, Angelou’s extraordinary memory, love of literature ...

Even before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou ... to literature, Angelou performed as a singer at the famed North Beach nightclub the hungry i, and, at 16 years old, she ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya ... Angelou continues her autobiographical series with Gather Together in My Name. This book picks up where her first memoir left off, covering her late teenage years ...