Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

Published in 1978, Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups ...

African-American poets have left an indelible mark on American poetry, and their words resonate with readers across generations. Famous black poets who wrote poems about black history This ranking ...

February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, shares one of her own poems, an untitled American sonnet.