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  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Maya Angelou
    April 7, 2020
    Reading "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • 2014: In Memoriam
    December 31, 2014
    We remember a number of special people interviewed by Bill over the years who passed away in 2014.
  • History
    Clip: Maya Angelou: "Because if You Were Black You Never Feel Safe"
    August 14, 2014
    | Charina Nadura
    In this clip from an interview Bill did with the writer in 1982, Angelou returns to her hometown and describes what it felt like to cross over from the black part of town to the white neighborhood.
  • Maya Angelou on Facing Evil
    August 14, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.
  • Arts & Culture
    Going Home With Maya Angelou
    August 7, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Revisit an episode from over 30 years ago, in which Bill joined the legendary writer on her return to the small Arkansas town where she grew up.
  • Poets & Writers
    Maya Angelou on the Story of Black Womanhood
    May 29, 2014 | Updated June 2, 2014
    | Theresa Riley
    In this clip from a 1973 interview, Bill Moyers asks Maya Angelou, who died last week, about the burgeoning women’s liberation movement and what it means to her.
  • Clip: Maya Angelou on the Black Side of the Tracks
    April 13, 2012 | Updated May 28, 2014
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The esteemed poet, who has died at the age of 86, traveled with Bill to her childhood town of Stamps, Arkansas, in this 1982 clip.
  • US Poet Laureate Rita Dove
    April 22, 1994
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The youngest poet laureate talks about her life, her poems and her efforts to take poetry to the people.
  • 20 Years of Listening to America
    October 4, 1991
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    In this 20-year compilation, Bill speaks to a wide range of people -- from average Americans to household names like David Rockefeller, Maya Angelou, Ronald Reagan and Joseph Campbell.
  • Faith & Reason
    Facing Evil with Bill Moyers
    March 28, 1988 | Facing Evil
    Maya Angelou, Philip Hallie, Raul Hilberg, Sam Proctor and Al Huang -- on the forces of evil and goodness.


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