maya angelou

Educator, journalist, anti-lynching activist, and NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells is now joining the list of distinguished women honored by Mattel with her own signature Barbie doll. The new Ida B. Wells doll will be dressed in a deep blue, floor-length dress with lace details. Wells’ Barbie doll will also come with a historically significant […]

The United States Mint’s first coins in the American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program. Writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher Maya Angelou will be on the US quarter. Angelou rose to international prominence as an author after the publication of her groundbreaking autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Angelou’s published works of verse, […]

An award winning Black female writer will become the youngest inaugural poet when she recites her work at president Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, January 20. Amanda Gorman, 22, has been breaking down barriers all her life. In 2014, she became the first Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angles. After that she was named the […]

Did you know Dr. Angelo loved wearing Uggs?!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy this year’s Valentine’s Day love poem by Maya Angelou titled, Touched by an Angel.