Inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “Sympathy,” Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical representation of the African American experience. The poem contrasts the lives of two ...

From autobiographical works like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” to her plays and poetry, Angelou has wise words for nearly ...

Dear Annie: I just finished reading the letter from “Caged Bird,” and my heart broke for her. The reason is because I lived ...

authored the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, worked alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and recited one of her poems at a US presidential inauguration.

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet's intellectual property from his father and has bankrupted a company the two set up to manage her legacy, the father claims in ...

Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman ... She shot to fame with her ground-breaking autobiography in 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, about her childhood in the Deep ...

A few months after her arrival, Angelou experienced an ordeal that she has never been able to forget -she writes about this in I Know why the Caged Bird Sings ... and recited poetry but started ...