
When writer, author, activist and educator Maya Angelou published the first of her seven autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in 1969, she was reclaiming her own coming-of-age story, a girlhood interrupted by abandonment, displacement, abuse and assault amid Jim Crow-era racism in the South. The…
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And Still She Rises: Dr. Maya Angelou Is One of Barbie's 'Inspiring Women'
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January 14, 2021
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