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Celebrated Marsalis brings jazz mastery to Wake Forest

Wake Forest University has secured one of jazz music’s most distinguished voices for its 2025 Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence program, announcing that Grammy-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis

10 Black poets whose work lives on

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate and enlighten, here is a list of 10 of the best and most influential Black poets of all-time.

US Mint unveils Maya Angelou quarter

Acclaimed poet and author Maya Angelou and astronaut Sally Ride will be memorialized on a new set of quarters scheduled to enter circulation next January.

5 classic books that explore race and feminism

Black women are criminally unrepresented in the publishing world. Despite this, Black women have written some of the most influential works of literature in American

Barbie unveils Maya Angelou doll

As Black History month approaches, Mattel has unveiled Maya Angelou as the newest member of its Inspiring Women Collection. Angelou is only the 10th woman