On Wednesday, the African-American community lost its beautiful and genuine matriarch, the person who best personified the strength, grace and beauty of the culture. A phenomenal lady that most ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 28, the University of Connecticut Women’s Center hosted a screening of the 2016 film “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise.” The film won the 2017 Peabody Award, according to the film’s ...

The Black Mosaic collection of literature, narrative, poetry and plays that pull together a picture of Black lives in our current time. The work of William Shakespeare, Lin Manuel Miranda, Langston ...

Many in Winston-Salem and across North Carolina remembered Maya Angelou, who passed away at her Winston-Salem home Wednesday morning at age 86, as one of their own. Her poems shaped minds, told of the ...

The new documentary film, “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” begins with her quote, “We must encounter defeats but we must not be defeated, but in fact it may be necessary to encounter defeats so that ...

Shub Chhokra is a sophomore at Harvard College, where he studies social studies and Russian language. He writes a biweekly column for The Harvard Crimson and has written for National Review. He is on ...