News about Maya Angelou

At the National Book Awards, Oprah Winfrey blasted banning books, revealing how Maya Angelou's 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' helped her grapple with her own rape as a child. The TV mogul first revealed that she had been assaulted as a child on her talk show in 1986, according to Angelou's book, which she read at 15, she gave a 'voice' to her agony. The 74th annual event was peppered with political commentary, with a focus on banning books, with host LeVar Burton taking aim at Moms for Liberty.

Beyoncé introduced the name and image of her much-anticipated new fragrance three months after first hinting at her 318 million Instagram followers and followers. In the official unboxing video for Cé Noir, the pop star-turned entrepreneur is speaking directly to all of her followers around the world. 'I'm really excited.' 'This is my Cé Noir I'm unboxing,' the pop star-turned-entrepreneur revealed while holding up a new one from the camera. 'And it's finally here after years of hard work.' Queen Bey reveals the theory behind the fragrance's style, which includes a chrome bottle with a transparent circle in its middle, allowing the product to'see inside the soul'. 'I wanted something to be monolithic,' she says as she appears to be sitting in a dressing room in a black tank top and matching drawstring pants.' 'And I wanted something to have a little bit of personality.'

Elle Macpherson took to Instagram on Tuesday to commemorate 20 years of being sober. The Australian model, 59, proudly posted a snapshot of her blue and gold Alcoholics Anonymous tri-plate token. Maya Angelou and author Alan Watts then shared two quotes to mark the occasion.

On what would have been Maya Angelou's birthday and civil rights activist's 95th birthday, Oprah Winfrey commemorated her late friend. Maya will have been 95 today, and I'll be throwing her a huge party, as I did every 5th year since she turned 60,' Winfrey, 69, said in a caption alongside a picture of the pair together.' When Angelou was a young girl model, she explained how she became a key role model.

ROBERT HARDMAN: The King will be able to draw on a larger pool of royal substitutes, not least the Princess Royal (left inset) and Earl of Wessex (right inset), if he is outside the country, under legislative jurisdiction. The scheme is being devised to prevent the two dukes (left) from being interested in any state affairs in the absence of the King (right).

As Maya Jama has been announced as the new Love Island host, MailOnline looks at the presenter, Laura Whitmore, after the Irish star resigned after a two-year stint on the popular ITV2 show. Maya, 28, lives in London and is of Somali and Swedish descent, named after poet Maya Angelou because her mother read the famous poem, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," during her pregnancy.

Prince Harry (right) and King Charles (left) after the Queen's death is a mystery charity heroine (lower inset) who is motivated by a desire to do her absolute best for others.' Phyllis Stewart, the MD of a concierge service headquartered in Aberdeen Airport, has smears the Duke of Sussex and Charles, the new monarch of England. In her previous work with British Airways, she has raised £200,000 for homeless children.

Mattel has paid tribute to Walker by including her as the newest doll in Barbie's Inspiring Women Series. In the 19th century, the African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist made her fortune by launching a line of haircare products for black women. The unveiling of the historic doll coincides with the Black Business Month in August. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, in 1867. In 1906, she took the name of her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker, and launched Madam C.J. Walker, one of the first black haircare products. She was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1919, Walker died of kidney disease at the age of 51.

Taylor Mulitz, one-half of the arty and infectious indie duo Flasher's, left a digital marketing job he'd held for a year in December 2021. After giving notice, he thought, "I'm free!" he thought. The timing was perfect: Flasher's sprawling second album, Love Is Yours, which he recorded with bandmate Emma Baker in mid-2020 as a pandemic summer raged, was almost ready to be released. (It's out June 17 via Domino.) It had been almost four years since Flasher's debut, and Mulitz was keen to jump back in. For amusement, he made a few goofy TikToks to plug the first single drop in March, including Barenaked Ladies' timeless 1998 hit "One Week."