Cicely Tyson at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Tyson’s memoir was released just prior to her death. The memoir traces Tyson’s roots from growing up in Harlem and being raised in the church, to becoming a successful model and actress. Tyson would go on to achieve Hollywood acclaim earning Tonys, Emmys and an honorary Oscar. But in the book she shares her experience overcoming racial and personal trauma during her years in the spotlight.
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award, Coates nonfiction book is written as a letter to the author s teenage son about the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being Black in the United States. The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction on Aug. 2, 2015, and remained number one for three weeks.
Cicely Tyson at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Tyson’s memoir was released just prior to her death. The memoir traces Tyson’s roots from growing up in Harlem and being raised in the church, to becoming a successful model and actress. Tyson would go on to achieve Hollywood acclaim earning Tonys, Emmys and an honorary Oscar. But in the book she shares her experience overcoming racial and personal trauma during her years in the spotlight.
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award, Coates nonfiction book is written as a letter to the author s teenage son about the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being Black in the United States. The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction on Aug. 2, 2015, and remained number one for three weeks.
Every day feels like Sunday. Not even a modern Sunday, more like one from a generation ago. But there are signs of hope: my father had his first vaccine on Saturday; in parks and gardens, green shoots push up through the soil; soon we will be being roused by the dawn chorus, and spring will have sprung.
Over the weekend, my family participated in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, the world’s largest bird survey. This citizen scientist project gave us something different to do, plus it gave my sons a golden opportunity to snigger at the word ‘tit’.
Virtual Event Celebrates Over 50 Years Of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Bethany Chafin
6:46am Jan 29, 2021 Dr. Maya Angelou was the Z. Smith Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University from 1982 until her death in 2014. Image courtesy: Wake Forest University
A virtual celebration this weekend will honor the legacy of Maya Angelou and pay tribute to her book “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.” The autobiography was published over 50 years ago in 1969.
Saturday’s celebration will be a three-part virtual event. It will include a reading from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” featuring celebrities like Oprah and Tracee Ellis Ross as well as friends of Angelou’s from her time at Wake Forest University.
Though too classic and timeless to be labelled a ‘trend’, pearls are definitely having a modern revival. In the last week, searches for pearl jewellery are up 189 per cent according to global shopping platform Lyst. You can put that down to the presidential inauguration, where pearls could be found on the ears, wrists and fingers of JLo, on the ring of poet laureate Amanda Gorman, inspired by Maya Angelou’s
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and gifted to Gorman by Oprah (who also gifted Angelou a blue Chanel coat and gloves to wear to perform at the inauguration in 1993) and of course, around the neck of Vice President Kamala Harris.