Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies. Her unique career – which included work as a dancer, singer, actress, composer, activist, teacher ...

dancer, actress, and even Hollywood’s first Black director. In many ways, Angelou paved the way for future African American artists. Maya Angelou is best known for the autobiographies that she ...

First transmitted in 1994, Jeremy Isaacs talks to Maya Angelou about her life as a cook, a conductor on a tram car, a ‘madam’, a prostitute, a dancer, a singer, an actress, a civil rights ...