maya angelou birthday

  • Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou’s Legacy Will Be Adapted for the Stage

    Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou’s Legacy Will Be Adapted for the Stage

    The miraculous life and words of Maya Angelou are being made into a one-woman show that producers hope to bring to Broadway, Deadline reports. Her only son, Guy Johnson, is working on the project, which is being led by Angelou’s former representative David Michael Rich and Hollywood and Broadway producer J. Todd Harris. Maya Angelou—recipient…

  • 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,…