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Maya Angelou

Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Harlem, John F. Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Charlie Rose, Jesus, Architectural Digest, James Baldwin, Carter Burden, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Eartha Kitt, Jane Jacobs, Amanda Burden, Charlie Rangel, The Dakota, Parties, Vanderbilt, New York City, Barack Obama, River House, Robert F. Kennedy, Rezoning, Newport, Lewis H. Michaux, In the Hamptons, Henry Roth, New York Times, Malcolm X, Philip Johnsons, Society, Maya Angelou, Tuxedo Park, New-York-Socialites, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...

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Vitamins: Eyeballing our Sacred Cows

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Healthy Eating, Pharmaceutical Industry, Phytonutrients, Twitter, Vitamins, Women's Health, Nutrition, Health, Supplements, Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, Healthcare, Organic Food, Local Food, New York Times, Maya Angelou, Tweets, Twittering, Twits, Tweeting, Media News
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

I shared the New York Times article on Vitamins not because I think the information is Gospel but because it raised interesting questions about a few of our very closely held assumptions.

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There's More to Influence on Twitter Than Being Famous

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Politico, Social Media, Twitter, Joanne Bamberger, Punditmom, David Schuster, Famous Twitterers, Claire McCaskill, David Gregory, Tweeters, Tweet, Washington DC, Maya Angelou, Al Gore, Media News
Joanne Bamberger

Al Gore, it's not really kosher Twitter etiquette to have 160,000+ people on your list and then only be interested in what two of them are tweeting.

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Exclusive Interview with Maya Angelou

Marianne Schnall | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Maya Angelou, The Inner Life, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Happiness, Courage, President Obama, DAR, Wangari Maathai, Writing, Duke Ellington, Mary J. Blige, Volunteer Stories Obama, Frank Sinatra, Living News
Marianne Schnall

I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it.

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Barack Obama, Linda Douglass, and Little Ole LGBT Me

Karen Ocamb | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Bill Clinton, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Linda Douglass, Same Sex Marriage, Rick Warren, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights Campaign, Maya Angelou, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Karen Ocamb

LGBT folks were not prepared for the sucker-punch Rick Warren, especially after having our legitimate, fundamental right to marry stripped from us by a majority of California voters.

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Elizabeth Alexander, Obama Inauguration Poet, "Completely Thrilled"

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Obama Inauguration, Inauguration Day 2009, Elizabeth Alexander, Obama Inauguration Poet, Obama's Inaugural Poet, The Poetic Life, Barack Obama, Poetry, Obama Poet, Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poet, Poet and Obama and Inaguration, Media News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Elizabeth Alexander was a toddler in a baby stroller when her parents took her to hear Martin Luther King's historic "I Have ...

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Who Will Be Obama's Inaugural Poet?

John Lundberg | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama's Inaugural Poet, Obama Inauguration, The Poetic Life, Barack Obama, Poetry, Obama Poet, Obama Inauguration Poet, Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poet, Poet and Obama and Inaguration, Living News
John Lundberg

The Associated Press reported last week on a growing expectation in the poetry community that Obama will follow in the tradition of Kennedy, Carter an...

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Big Momma Is In The (White) House

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living

Read More: White House, First Granny, Michelle Obama, Grandmother, President Obama, Family, Politics, Marian Robinson, Big Mama, Obama, First Grandmother, Barack Obama, Big Mamas, Race, U.S. Presidency, Sasha and Malia, Black Family, Obama Family, African American Family, The Obama Family, African Americans, Society, President Elect Obama, Extended Family, White House Family, Obama White House, Black Family Values, Maya Angelou, Black Community Values, Living News
Yvonne R. Davis

Analyzed as part of the multi-generational black family, grandmothers have often served as both patriarch and matriarch, guiding the black family through the toils and crises of our time.

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Election 2008: What We Can Do For Our Country

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Voting, Post Election, Maya Angelou, Election Results, Election 2008, Election Anxiety, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

"And now the work begins," wrote Dr. Maya Angelou in "Commencement Address." Her words have never rung more true than today. With two years of Elect...

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"Women, Power and Politics": How Have Women in Politics Changed the U.S. and the World?

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Ashley Judd, Chile, Rwanda, Women, Michelle Obama, Tina Brown, Woman, Sarah Palin Vice President, Girls, Politics, Sherry Lansing, Maria Bartiromo, Sarah Palin, Women and Politics, Michele Bachelet, Jeanne Shaheen, Maya Angelou, Sarah Palin Reaction, Media News
Maria Hinojosa

For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?

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Obama -- Learning from Kings

Vickie Karp | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Coretta Scott King, Obama, Maya Angelou, Dnc, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Politics News
Vickie Karp

At the funeral service for Coretta Scott King on February 7, 2006, Dr. Maya Angelou made one of the most beautiful speeches I've ever heard. Subject?...

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Ranking The Best Poets Ever

John Lundberg | Posted 07.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Top 10 Best Poets, William Blake, John Milton, The Inner Life, Top Poets, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Chaucer, Best Poets, 10 Best Poets, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, John Keats, Maya Angelou, Dante, Living News
John Lundberg

In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...

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A Mystery Meeting -- A Moment In History

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Home News
Kathleen Reardon

None of us knows what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke about Thursday night, but there is a feeling in the air that perhaps ignorance, arrogance, and cheap put-downs will cease to amuse -- cease to raise ratings.

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Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Read Poets' Society

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Ads, Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou Endorsement, Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou Hillary Clinton, Politics News

The latest advertisement from the Clinton campaign is the shrewdest and most fortuitously-timed piece of campaign video we've seen in a while. Check ...

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First Draft Of Maya Angelou's Open Letter

Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton NAFTA, Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Jerry and Joe Long

Whether you are her supporter, leaning towards her, undecided, or supporting someone else, I believe Hillary Clinton will never forget anyone who didn't fall in line - and she will make you pay.

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