Poll: Denzel, Robin Roberts among 'most trusted' celebs

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - Denzel Washington and Maya Angelou are ranked in the top 10 on the new Reader's Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America, ranking third and fifth respectively...

Maya Angelou honors mom, grandmother in new book

Leanne Italie, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Writer, actor, dancer. Activist, teacher, composer. In the melange of Maya Angelou's 85 years is also daughter, of two women who deserved one with a good memory...

Maya Angelou recovering after hospitalization

Associated Press

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - One of Maya Angelou's doctors says the poet and author is recovering at her North Carolina home following a brief hospitalization...

This week's book list: Women's History Month

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POSTSCRIPT'D - This is the final full week of Women’s History Month, so every book on our Hit List is a celebration of women: women who have lived extraordinary lives and women who have made extraordinary contributions to history...

MLK Memorial quote to be removed

Brett Zongker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar endorsed a plan Tuesday to remove a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, rather than cut into the granite to replace it with a fuller quotation...

1 year later, MLK Memorial inscription unchanged

Brett Zongker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - A year after the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to visitors in Washington, the group behind the monument is still working with the National Park Service to change an inscription...

Angelou opens women's health and wellness center

theGrio

Maya Angelou has taken up the issue of women's health by opening her own wellness center...

Angelou cancels appearance, cites illness

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DENTON, Texas (AP) - The 83-year-old poet is hosting a radio special on the civil rights era airing on public radio stations across the U.S...

Maya Angelou talks of 'courteous' Common

Chris Witherspoon

theGRIO Q&A - Dr. Maya Angelou talks receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, as well as her disapproval of the rapper Common's use of the n-word...

Maya Angelou hosts Black History Month special

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Author and activist Maya Angelou hopes for a time when Black History Month will no longer be needed to explain the contributions of African-Americans...

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Maya Angelou

Poll: Denzel, Robin Roberts among 'most trusted' celebs

Maya Angelou honors mom, grandmother in new book

Maya Angelou recovering after hospitalization

This week's book list: Women's History Month

MLK Memorial quote to be removed

1 year later, MLK Memorial inscription unchanged

Angelou opens women's health and wellness center

Angelou cancels appearance, cites illness

Maya Angelou talks of 'courteous' Common

Maya Angelou hosts Black History Month special

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