Inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “Sympathy,” Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical representation of the African American experience. The poem contrasts the lives of two ...

authored the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, worked alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and recited one of her poems at a US presidential inauguration.

Guy Bailey Johnson, Angelou's son, accused Angelou's grandson Colin Ashanti Murphy-Johnson in Alameda County Superior Court of attempting to cut him out of a 75 percent stake in the celebrated poet’s ...