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Dr. Maya Angelou started her career singing and dancing in San Francisco.
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Maya Angelou transitioned from dancing to singing early in her career.
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Denis O'Hare embodies the caricature of a nervous, ranting and raving Poe.
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In adapting Poe's work for cinema, Roger Corman wanted to emphasize the unconscious mind.
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Learn how Norman Lear struck up a friendship with Dr. Maya Angelou.
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While Maya Angelou was living in Ghana, she met and began working with Malcolm X.
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Bill Clinton decided to have a poet read at his inauguration: Dr. Maya Angelou.
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"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told..."
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After Poe released "The Raven," he became famous for his dramatic readings of the poem.
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How well do you know Edgar Allan Poe? See if you can separate fact from fiction.
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Childress explains how the character Scout had a radical viewpoint in the segregated south
