...U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Vernon Jordan, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), William H. Cosby, Jr., Maya Angelou, Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Percy E. Sutton, the late Gordon Parks, John Hope Franklin, the...
...to make her classically trained voice and complex guitar playing serenely understated or strikingly thunderous. Perhaps Maya Angelou praised her best: "If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along, the centuries...
...well worth checking out, especially for those who have a taste for the figurative, the odd, and the thought provoking. No Maya Angelou or Billy Collins here. This is work of a weirder terrain and a darker caliber, delectably illustrative of some complexly...
...of his life, never before seen photos and a profile on the Obama children. The issue also has essays and commentary from Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock and Gwen Ifill. BrownSista.com says ESSENCE.com has a behind the scenes video of the photo shoot,...
...and other female health issues, as well as writing by the likes of Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou and Tennessee Williams. It was also born during a time when feminists had the mentality that "what's good for the guys is good...
...earlier in Toronto. Known as the “voice of the civil rights movement,” Odetta influenced everyone from Janis Joplin and Maya Angelou to Harry Belafonte and Bob Dylan who said "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.” About 10 years...
... A whole bunch of famous authors, some of them even famous for being authors, get together to support the "Books=Gifts" campaign: It is, perhaps, a sign of how long it has been since we watched Sesame Street that we were shocked to see Elmo speaking in com...
...RIP OFF! I have really come to look forward to those. Every time I hear the poetry goo out of Suresh's mouth, I imagine Maya Angelou sitting at home feeling like she's been kicked in the nuts. We open in the jungle, with the Haitian trying as best he can...
...the surprise ending, which involves a boy's imagination and a simple cardboard box. Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem By Maya Angelou, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Schwartz & Wade, $17.99, all ages) An illustrated version of the poem the amazing...
...which were donated by Macy's, for Taste of the NFL. Participants include: Howard Stern; Martha Stewart; Gayle King; Dr. Maya Angelou; David Archuleta; Tom Arnold; Jacqueline Bisset; David Cook; Gary Dell'Abate; Derek & Romaine; Dido; Mitzi Gaynor; Bob Greene;...