Less than a week after the U.S. Naval Academy removed 381 books and literary works from its library, a local Annapolis book club staged a reading of one of the removed books at Annapolis City Dock.

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As we mourn the passing of the great Maya Angelou, we remember all of the awards, recognitions and accolades she earned over the course of her illustrious career as an artist and activist. The Grammy ...

At A&E’s Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America event last night, Nicki Minaj took the stage for a reading of Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise, and it was a goosebump-inducing moment.

At a memorial service for poet Maya Angelou, First Lady Michelle Obama said Angelou's writings first inspired her as a young ...