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Speaking yesterday at a private luncheon in North House, poet and author Maya Angelou encouraged students to use their intellectual talents to better society, according to those who attended...
After a week tracking her Random House publicist down (who for some reason kept confusing "Molly Ivins" and "Maya Angelou"), I was prepared for an interview conducted with a secretary in the room and a security guard outside the door. I should have known better. This, after all, was the woman fired from the New York Times for describing a community chicken-killing festival as "a gang-pluck...
Across the country, 800 writers including Scott Turow, William Styron, Maya Angelou and Joyce Carol Oates will participate in the effort, which organizers hope will raise $100,000 for the hungry, Andrews said...
...territory new to him. It is about a young woman named Justice (Janet Jackson) in the same setting who is doing her best to keep her options open and her hopes up. She's a hairdresser who finds psychological escape in the poetry she scribbles (actually it is Maya Angelou's work) while mourning the loss of a boyfriend gunned down in her presence in the movie's opening, and most arresting, sequence. Quite clearly, she also dreams of making a real escape from the hood...
...Douglas Wilder of Virginia will preside over the ceremony Counter said yesterday. Ashe's wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, will unveil the memorial with Counter, and the Rev. Andrew Young will dedicate the structure. Poet Maya Angelou, who spoke at President Clinton's inauguration, will deliver a memorial reading Counter said