Last week’s inauguration of Donald Trump, a man found liable for sexual abuse, was, among much else, an event strikingly lacking in poetry ... Notably, Angelou was writing Caged Bird in 1968 ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated ... 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 ...

Maya Angelou sadly passed away in 2014, but her spirit will never die as long as young women continue to find strength and inspiration in her words. The ground-breaking poet would have been 89 on ...

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton ... a performer and activist—began drafting I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she decided to write in detail about the rape.