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Rita Coburn-Whack originally introduced Maya Angelou and Common.
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Maya Angelou speaks about her work as a teacher and what she shares with her students.
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Learn how Norman Lear struck up a friendship with Dr. Maya Angelou.
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Maya Angelou nearly had an opportunity early in her career to work with Pearl Bailey.
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While Maya Angelou was living in Ghana, she met and began working with Malcolm X.
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Dr. Maya Angelou describes the challenges she faced as a writer.
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Lorraine Hansberry encourages young writers to represent their community in their work.
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Lorraine Hansberry speaks out with "sighted eyes and feeling heart" against injustice.
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Explore the magical world Ursula K. Le Guin created in fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea.
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Watch the acceptance speech that shook the literary world.
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John Singleton shares why he believes Dr. Angelou's story is so important.
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Without realizing it, Maya Angelou met Tupac Shakur.
