i know why the caged bird sings
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If You Liked ‘The Color Purple,’ You’ll Love These Books
‘The Women of Brewster Place,’ ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Homegoing’ are just a few of the powerful stories that you won’t be able to put down.
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Beloved Black Banned Books You Must Read Now
In honor of Banned Books Week, check out one of these amazing reads that stays in conservative crosshairs
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15 Maya Angelou Quotes That Should Inspire Us All
In honor of what would have been her 95th birthday, we look at some of our favorite words of wisdom from the legendary Maya Angelou.
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Great Black Autobiographies You Must Add to Your Reading List [UPDATED]
Check out these powerful autobiographies that tell the true stories behind some of our most influential Black Americans.
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The Twenty-Third Psalm
Some stuff about why ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is a perfect anthem for Black America.
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28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB | Day 24: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Publisher Synopsis: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic…
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On Maya Angelou’s Birthday, Black Girls Breathe Life Into Her Words
“If I had my druthers, I’d rather be born black, American, female and in the 20th century. And I was. What luck I have,” said Maya Angelou in 2010. With these words, Angelou spoke with the White House on the cusp of receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the United States,…