The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

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Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Angelou defied all probability and category, becoming one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream success as an author and thriving in virtually every ...

Maya Angelou was a diva of American culture: an actress, singer, dancer and film director as well as an essayist and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated poet, whose mainstream magnetism led her to write verses ...

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1993. Credit - Larry Morris—The Washington Post via Getty Images The flattening of Angelou in the ...