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12 Glamorous Role Models Talk About Their Role Models (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Iman, Style, Stella McCartney, Michelle Obama, Kerry Washington, Katie Couric, Lesley M. M. Blume, Women of the Year 2009, Maria Shriver, Tyra Banks, Maya Angelou, Glamour Magazine, Cindi Leive, Ambassador Susan Rice, Amy Poehler, Madeline Albright, Diane Von Furstenberg, Slidehuge, Slideshow, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

If someone invited you to a dinner party, and told you that the other guests would include poet Maya Angelou, designer Stella McCartney, Ambassador Susan Rice, and comedienne Amy Poehler (oh, and Michelle Obama might just stop by for appetizers), how long would it take you to leap out of your seat and scramble over to the fete?

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Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers

Gina Frangello | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Women’s Voices Fund, Publishing Industry, Chicago Writers, Books, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Feminist Bookstores, Margaret Atwood, Women & Children First, Maya Angelou, Bookstores, Chicago Authors, Adrienne Rich, Women and Children First, Chicago News
Gina Frangello

By the early 1990s, there were more than 100 feminist bookstores in the U.S. Now, after the explosion of chain bookstores and a changing political climate, there are a mere seven remaining.

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8 Steps To Bounce Back To Your Best

Anne Naylor | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Rumi, Maya Angelou, Dr Cara Barker, Buddha, Joy, Jill and Kevin's Wedding Dance, Sai Baba, Thich Nhat Hanh, Unpanishads, Happiness, Living News
Anne Naylor

"...keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." - Rumi On Monday, I struck the bottom of my c...

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Maya Angelou's Elegy For Michael Jackson

John Lundberg | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Queen Latifah, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Funeral, Michael Jackson Death, Maya Angelou, Micheal Jackson Funeral, Living News
John Lundberg

Among the many notable moments at Michael Jackson's funeral was Queen Latifah's reading of the Maya Angelou poem "We Had Him." The popular poetess wr...

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Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | 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 05.23.2009 | 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 03.31.2009 | 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 03.20.2009 | 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 01.22.2009 | 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 01.19.2009 | 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 01.14.2009 | 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 01.08.2009 | 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 12.04.2008 | 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 10.20.2008 | 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 10.01.2008 | 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 08.04.2008 | 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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Jason Linkins

Campaign AdWatch: Read Poets' Society

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2008 | 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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