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Maya Angelou is celebrating Black History Month in a big way, until the moment when we no longer need a month to highlight the achievement of Black Americans. “We want to reach a time when there won’t be Black History Month, when black history will be so integrated into American history that we study it [...]

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After the uproar that was spearheaded by poet Maya Angelou, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial inscription is being changed. Huffington Post: The memorial created by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin & American architect Ed Jackson, Jr. read: “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.” The final and rather poor selection was actually an excerpt of [...]

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Designers of Martin Luther King Jr’s Washington D.C. Memorial had a last-minute change of plans in the design that has left 83-year-old noted poet, Maya Angelou, heated. The enormous statue has several of MLK’s quotes inscribed on the walls, however because of space constraints some quotes had to be paraphrased. On February 4, 1968 at [...]

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