In the summer of 2002 Maya Angelou joined James Naughtie for an intimate evening with readers at Broadcasting House. Here she sheds further light on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...