Maya Angelou

A troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood is sent to spend a summer at her family's home in rural Mississippi.

In "Long black song," a hard-working farmer invests what little he has in a gift for his wife, while back home, she falls for the advances of a traveling salesman. A small-town principal risks his career to defend a young boy's image of a black Christ painted for a state-wide competition in "The boy who painted Christ black." A jazz-joint piano player in "The Reunion" comes to terms with prejudices that have haunted her since childhood, when she is...

Notes on the autobiography that covers the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.

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Since the Newark Rebellion of 1967 to current day, the city's narrative has been one of revolution through the generations. WHY IS WE AMERICANS? weighs in on Newark's struggle against oppression through the story of the Baraka family.